Is Mitt Being Neoconned Into War?

Tuesday - July 31, 2012 at 2:34 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan Has Mitt Romney given Israel a blank check for war? So it seemed from the declaration in Jerusalem by his adviser Dan Senor, who all but flashed Israel a green light for war, signaling the Israelis that, if you go, Mitt's got your back: "If Israel has to take action on its own in order to stop Iran from developing that capability, the governor would respect that Continue reading...

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Has the Day of the Islamist Arrived?

Tuesday - June 26, 2012 at 3:14 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan Sixteen months after the United States abandoned its loyal satrap of 30 years, President Hosni Mubarak, to champion democracy in Egypt, the returns are in. Mohammed Morsi, candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood, is president of Egypt, while the military has dissolved the elected parliament that was dominated by the Brotherhood, and curbed his powers. The military and Continue reading...

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Bibi’s Dilemma — and Barack’s

Tuesday - April 17, 2012 at 6:42 pm

By Patrick J. Buchanan "Bibi" Netanyahu was disgusted. "My initial reaction is that Iran has gotten a freebie. It has got five weeks to continue enrichment without any limitation." The Israeli prime minister was referring to Saturday's meeting in Istanbul of the P5-plus-1 -- the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany -- with representatives from Iran. Subject: Continue reading...

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Will Bibi Break Obama?

Friday - March 2, 2012 at 1:31 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan The prime minister of Israel is angry with Barack Obama and is coming here to force a hardening of U.S. policy toward Iran. "Bibi" Netanyahu had his anger on display at a meeting in Israel with Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham. McCain emerged saying he had never seen an Israeli prime minister "that unhappy." "He was angry," said McCain. "I've never seen Continue reading...

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Who Wants War With Iran?

Tuesday - February 7, 2012 at 3:19 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan Appearing alongside CIA Director David Petraeus before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence last week, James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, said of Iran: "We don't believe they've actually made the decision to go ahead with a nuclear weapon." Before the hearing, as James Fallows of The Atlantic reports, Clapper released his "Worldwide Threat Continue reading...

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Who Wants War With Iran?

Friday - January 20, 2012 at 9:49 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan On Sept. 21, 1976, as his car rounded Sheridan Circle on Embassy Row, former Chilean ambassador Orlando Letelier was assassinated by car bomb. Ronni Moffitt, a 25-year-old American women who worked with Letelier at the leftist Institute for Policy Studies, died with him. Michael Townley, an ex-CIA asset in the hire of Chile's intelligence agency, confessed to using Continue reading...

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Return of the War Party?

Tuesday - November 15, 2011 at 9:41 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan Is a vote for the Republican Party in 2012 a vote for war? Is a vote for Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich a vote for yet another unfunded war of choice, this time with a nation, Iran, three times as large and populous as Iraq? Mitt says that if elected he will move carriers into the Persian Gulf and "prepare for war." Newt is even more hawkish. America should continue Continue reading...

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