By Patrick J. Buchanan"Gentlemen do not read each other's mail," said Secretary of State Henry Stimson of his 1929 decision to shut down "The Black Chamber" that decoded the secret messages of foreign powers."This means war!" said FDR, after reading the intercepted instructions from Tokyo to its diplomats the night of Dec. 6, 1941.Roosevelt's secretary of war? Henry Stimson.Times Continue reading...
19 March 2013 
Was Iraq Worth It?
Tuesday - March 19, 2013 at 3:32 am
By Patrick J. BuchananTen years ago today, U.S. air, sea and land forces attacked Iraq. And the great goals of Operation Iraqi Freedom?Destroy the chemical and biological weapons Saddam Hussein had amassed to use on us or transfer to al-Qaida for use against the U.S. homeland.Exact retribution for Saddam's complicity in 9/11 after we learned his agents had met secretly in Prague with Continue reading...
8 February 2013 
Is America Ensnared in an Endless War?
Friday - February 8, 2013 at 2:46 pm
By Patrick J. Buchanan"When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal."So said Richard Nixon in his interviews with David Frost. Nixon was talking about wiretaps and surreptitious entries to protect lives and safeguard national security in a violent and anarchic war decade.The Nixon haters pronounced themselves morally sickened.Fast forward to our new century. For, Continue reading...
And Was the Mission Accomplished?
Friday - December 16, 2011 at 12:51 pm
By Patrick J. BuchananFor the Army and Marines who lost 4,500 dead and more than 30,000 wounded, many of them amputees, the second-longest war in U.S. history is over. America is coming home from Iraq.On May 1, 2003, on the carrier Abraham Lincoln, the huge banner behind President George W. Bush proclaimed, "Mission Accomplished!"That was eight years ago. And so, was the mission Continue reading...
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