How Killing Libyans Became a Moral Imperative

Friday - March 25, 2011 at 12:54 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan"Who would be free themselves must strike the blow."So wrote the poet Byron, who would himself die just days after landing in Greece to join the war for independence from the Turks.But in that time, Americans followed the dictum of Washington, Adams and Jefferson: Stay out of foreign wars.America "goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the Continue reading...

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A Foolish and Unconstitutional War

Wednesday - March 23, 2011 at 12:48 pm

By Patrick J. Buchanan"The president does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation."So said constitutional scholar and Senator Barack Obama in December 2007 -- the same man who, this weekend, ordered U.S. air and missile strikes on Libya without any 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 Murderers of Christianity

Tuesday - November 16, 2010 at 10:21 pm

By Patrick J. BuchananSunday, on the eve of All Saints' Day, Nov. 1, 2010, the faithful gathered at the Assyrian Catholic Church of Our Lady of Salvation in Baghdad.As Father Wassim Sabih finished the mass, eight al-Qaida stormed in, began shooting and forced him to the floor. As the priest pleaded that his parishioners be spared, they executed him and began their mission of mass 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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