The New World Disorder

By Patrick J. BuchananAfter his great victory in Desert Storm, George H.W. Bush went before the United Nations to declare the coming of a New World Order.The Cold War was yesterday. Communism was in its death throes. The Soviet Empire had crumbled.The Soviet Union was disintegrating. Francis Fukuyama was writing of "The End of History." Savants trilled about the inevitable triumph of Continue reading...

America Needs No More Neo-Imperial Nonsense

By Patrick J. Buchanan - The Financial TimesTriumphant in the first Gulf war, George H.W. Bush, in October 1991, went before the UN to declare that the US’s goal was now to build a “New World Order”.Rejecting this as Wilsonian utopianism, my 1992 presidential campaign called for an end to US military intervention where no vital interest was imperilled, for federal action to secure Continue reading...

The Day of the Hobbits

By Patrick J. BuchananMocked by The Wall Street Journal and Sen. John McCain as the little people of the "Lord of the Rings" books, the tea party "Hobbits" are indeed returning to Middle Earth -- to nail the coonskin to the wall.As even the Journal concedes, the final deal to raise the debt ceiling, worked out by Sen. Mitch McConnell and Barack Obama, backed by Speaker John Boehner, is Continue reading...

An Asian Nuclear Arms Race?

by Patrick J. BuchananIf there was any doubt North Korea had mastered the capacity to build nuclear bombs, it has been removed. We have clarity. The effect of North Korea's forced entry into the nuclear club, joining the United States, Russia, Britain, China, France, Israel, India and Pakistan, may be as far-reaching as was Moscow's entry in 1949. For Kim Jong-Il now has the ability to smuggle Continue reading...