By Patrick J. Buchanan In 1918, the United States proved militarily decisive in the defeat of the Kaiser's Germany and emerged as first power on earth. World War II, ending in 1945, produced two truly victorious nations, the Soviet Union of Joseph Stalin and the America of Harry Truman. Out of the Cold War that lasted from Truman to the disintegration of the Soviet Empire and breakup of Continue reading...
Israel in a Post-American Era
The Poodle Gets Kicked
By Patrick J. Buchanan Actually, Joe set himself up. From the moment he set foot on Israeli soil, our vice president was in full pander mode. First, he headed to Yad Vashem memorial, where he put on a yarmulke and declared Israel "a central bolt in our existence." "For world Jewry," Joe went on, presumably including 5 million Americans, "Israel is the heart. ... Israel is the light. ... Continue reading...
Our Pushover President
By Patrick J. Buchanan "This state visit is ... a terrible mistake," said Rep. Eliot Engel, chairman of the House Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere. Continue reading...
Tell Israel: Cool the Jets
by Patrick J. Buchanan July 31, 2009 Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, who is wired into the cabinet of "Bibi" Netanyahu, warns that if Iran's nuclear program is not aborted by December, Israel will strike to obliterate it. Defense Secretary Gates' mission to Israel this week, says Bolton, to relay Obama's red light, was listened to attentively, but will not be decisive. Israel will Continue reading...
Breaking Bibi
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...
Did Bibi Box Obama In?
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...
Bibi and Israel at Dead End
By Patrick J. Buchanan If there are no peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians for an independent Palestinian state, war next year is inevitable. So King Abdullah II of Jordan has told the London Times: "If we delay our peace negotiations, then there is going to be another conflict between Arabs or Muslims and Israel in the next 12 to 18 months." Whether the king's timetable is Continue reading...
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