Breaking Bibi

Friday - June 5, 2009 at 12:12 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan "I have to admire the residents of Iroquois territory for assuming that they have a right to determine where Jews lives in Jerusalem." Thus did Israeli government press director Daniel Seamen caustically dismiss President Obama's opposition to Israel's right to "natural growth" of its settlements in Arab East Jerusalem and on the West Bank. Though Obama's address in Continue reading...

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Did Bibi Box Obama In?

Thursday - May 21, 2009 at 11:39 pm

By Patrick J. Buchanan On Sept. 20, 2002, as the War Party was beating the drum for preventive war on Iraq, lest we wake up to "a mushroom cloud over an American city," The Wall Street Journal introduced an eminent voice to confirm that, yes, Saddam was driving straight for an atomic bomb. "This is a dictator who is ... feverishly trying to acquire nuclear weapons," wrote Bibi Netanyahu, Continue reading...

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Of Patriots and Assassins

Tuesday - March 17, 2009 at 12:08 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan During Nixon's historic trip to China in 1972, his interpreter and I, free for a few hours, conscripted a driver to take us on a tour of Beijing. Somewhere in my files are photos from that day we toured the grim city of Chairman Mao in the time of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. The interpreter: Charles Freeman -- the same Charles Freeman Adm. Dennis Blair Continue reading...

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Return of the War Party

Friday - February 27, 2009 at 12:30 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan "Real men go to Tehran!" brayed the neoconservatives, after the success of their propaganda campaign to have America march on Baghdad and into an unnecessary war that has forfeited all the fruits of our Cold War victory. Now they are back, in pursuit of what has always been their great goal: an American war on Iran. It would be a mistake to believe they and their Continue reading...

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A Bibi-Barack Collision?

Tuesday - January 27, 2009 at 10:13 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan "Where there is no solution, there is no problem," geostrategist James Burnham once wryly observed. Ex-Sen. George Mitchell, the latest U.S. negotiator to take up the Palestine portfolio, may discover what it was that Burnham meant. For Israel's three-week war on Gaza, where Palestinians died at a rate of 100 to one to Israelis, appears to have been, like Israel's Continue reading...

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The Neocons’ Palin Project

Tuesday - September 16, 2008 at 12:55 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan Will the neocons who tutored George W. Bush in the ideology he pursued to the ruin of his presidency do the same for Sarah Palin? Should they succeed, they will destroy her. Yet, they are moving even now to capture this princess of the right and hope of the party. In St. Paul, Palin was told to cancel a meeting with Phyllis Schlafly and pro-life conservatives. Continue reading...

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