By Patrick J. Buchanan"For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction" is Newton's third law of physics.Its counterpart in geopolitics is "blowback," when military action in one sphere produces an unintended and undesirable consequence in another.September 11, 2001, was blowback.George H.W. Bush had sent an army of half a million to hurl Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait, a Continue reading...
2 October 2012 
The Unraveling of Obama’s Foreign Policy
Tuesday - October 2, 2012 at 12:38 am
By Patrick J. BuchananThree days after Ambassador Chris Stevens was assassinated, Jay Carney told the White House press corps it had been the work of a flash mob inflamed by an insulting video about the Prophet Muhammad.As the killers had arrived with rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons, this story seemed noncredible on its face.Yet two days later, U.N. Ambassador Susan Continue reading...
How Capital Crushed Labor
Tuesday - September 6, 2011 at 2:10 am
By Patrick J. BuchananOnce, it was a Labor Day tradition for Democrats to go to Cadillac Square in Detroit to launch their campaigns in that forge and furnace of American democracy, the greatest industrial center on earth.Democrats may still honor the tradition. But Detroit is not what she was, not remotely. And neither is America.Not so long ago, we made all the shoes and clothes we Continue reading...
A Fire Bell in the Night for Norway
Tuesday - July 26, 2011 at 12:06 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan"Like a fire bell in the night," wrote Thomas Jefferson in 1820, "this momentous question ... awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union."Jefferson was writing of the sudden resurgence of the slavery issue in the debate on Missouri's entry into the Union, as foreshadowing a civil war.And that massacre in Oslo, where a Continue reading...
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