Who Are We Fighting For?

Tuesday - April 5, 2011 at 12:37 am

Who Are We Fighting For? By Patrick J. Buchanan On March 20, Pastor Terry Jones, who heads a congregation of 30 at his Dove World Outreach Center church in Gainesville, Fla., conducted a mock trial of the Quran "for crimes against humanity." Pronouncing Islam's sacred book guilty, Jones soaked a Quran in kerosene and set it ablaze in a portable fire pit. Few noticed. But Hamid Karzai Continue reading...

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Robert Gates, Neo-Isolationist?

Thursday - March 3, 2011 at 11:56 pm

By Patrick J. Buchanan "(A)ny future defense secretary who advises the president to again send a big American land army into Asia or into the Middle East or Africa should 'have his head examined,' as Gen. MacArthur so delicately put it," Robert Gates has just told the cadets at West Point. America would be nuts, Gates is saying, to fight a new land war like the two he inherited. It Continue reading...

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The 9/11 of American Diplomacy

Friday - December 3, 2010 at 12:01 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan Not since Leon Trotsky began publishing the secrets of the Romanov archives in 1918 has there been a more devastating leak of diplomatic documents than this week's WikiLeaks dump. The Romanov files contained the secret treaties the imperial Allies had signed to carve up the Hohenzollern, Habsburg and Ottoman empires after a war fought "to make the world safe for Continue reading...

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The Prisoner of Gen. Petraeus

Tuesday - June 29, 2010 at 9:05 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan President Obama is being hailed for toughness in his firing of Gen. McChrystal and brilliance in his replacing him as Afghan field commander with Gen. David Petraeus, who managed the George W. Bush "surge" in Iraq that saved this nation from an ignominious defeat. Herewith, a dissent. By firing a fighting general, beloved of his troops, Obama just took upon himself Continue reading...

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Obama vs. the U.S. Army

Friday - June 25, 2010 at 9:33 am

By Patrick J Buchanan In confiding to Rolling Stone their unflattering opinions of the military acumen of Barack Obama, Joe Biden, National Security Adviser Gen. James Jones, Dick Holbrooke and Ambassador Karl Eikenberry, Gen. Stanley McChrystal and his staff were guilty of colossal stupidity. And President Obama had cause to cashier them. Yet his decision to fire McChrystal may prove both Continue reading...

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What Price Afghanistan?

Thursday - June 17, 2010 at 11:25 pm

By Patrick J. Buchanan "The narrative ... has been too negative." So says Defense Secretary Robert Gates of political and press commentary about the war in Afghanistan. It reminds him of the pessimism of June 2007, before the Iraqi surge began to succeed, said Gates. But the narrative is coming now not just from critics of the war but stalwart defenders. John McCain says the war effort Continue reading...

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Obama’s Problems — and Ours

Sunday - February 28, 2010 at 11:37 pm

By Patrick J. Buchanan We inherited the worst situation since the Great Depression. That is the reflexive response of President Obama to the troubles from which he has been unable to extract his country. Even before the inauguration, he says, there were projections of a $1.2 trillion deficit for 2009. That deficit is not my deficit. Continue reading...

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