By Patrick J. BuchananBarack Obama has just taken his first baby steps into a war in Syria that may define and destroy his presidency.Thursday, while he was ringing in Gay Pride Month with LGBT revelers, a staffer, Ben Rhodes, informed the White House press that U.S. weapons will be going to the Syrian rebels.For two years Obama has stayed out of this sectarian-civil war that has Continue reading...
28 May 2013 
The Unraveling of Sykes-Picot
Tuesday - May 28, 2013 at 2:08 pm
By Patrick J. BuchananThe thrice-promised land it has been called.It is that land north of Mecca and Medina and south of Anatolia, between the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf.In 1915 -- that year of Gallipoli, which forced the resignation of First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill -- Britain, to win Arab support for its war against the Ottoman Turks, committed, in the Continue reading...
21 May 2013 
The Spectator President
Tuesday - May 21, 2013 at 1:53 am
By Patrick J. BuchananNo, this is not Watergate or Iran-Contra. Nor is it like the sex scandal that got Bill Clinton impeached.The AP, IRS and Benghazi matters represent a scandal not of presidential wrongdoing, but of presidential indolence, indifference and incompetence in discharging the duties of chief executive.The Barack Obama revealed to us in recent days is something rare in Continue reading...
10 May 2013 
Requiem for a Grand Old Party
Friday - May 10, 2013 at 12:39 am
By Patrick J. BuchananHas the bell begun to toll for the GOP?The question arises while reading an analysis of Census Bureau statistics on the 2012 election by Dan Balz and Ted Mellnik.One sentence in their Washington Post story fairly leaps out:"The total number of white voters actually decreased between 2008 and 2012, the first such drop by any group within the population since Continue reading...
30 April 2013 
Their War, Not Ours
Tuesday - April 30, 2013 at 1:26 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan"The worst mistake of my presidency," said Ronald Reagan of his decision to put Marines into the middle of Lebanon's civil war, where 241 died in a suicide bombing of their barracks.And if Barack Obama plunges into Syria's civil war, it could consume his presidency, even as Iraq consumed the presidency of George W. Bush.Why would Obama even consider Continue reading...
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