By Patrick J. BuchananA Cairo court has convicted 43 men and women of using foreign funds to foment unrest inside Egypt in connection with the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak.Sixteen of those convicted were Americans. All but one, Robert Becker of the National Democratic Institute, had already departed. Becker fled this week rather than serve two years in an Egyptian prison.And Continue reading...
23 November 2012 
Is Middle East Peace A Mirage
Friday - November 23, 2012 at 12:07 am
By Patrick J. BuchananWith the truce in the week-long Gaza war, Barack Obama is being prompted by right and left to re-engage and renew U.S. efforts to solve the core question of Middle East peace.Before he gets reinvolved in peacemaking, our once-burned president should ask himself some hard questions.Is real peace between Palestinians and Israelis even possible?Is there any Continue reading...
Is It Time to Come Home?
Thursday - September 13, 2012 at 11:33 pm
By Patrick J. BuchananIs it not long past time to do a cost-benefit analysis of our involvement in the Middle and Near East?In this brief century alone, we have fought the two longest wars in our history there, put our full moral authority behind an "Arab Spring" that brought down allies in Tunisia, Egypt and Yemen, and provided the air power that saved Benghazi and brought down Moammar Continue reading...
The Natural Map of the Middle East
Tuesday - August 7, 2012 at 4:53 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan"Apart from political maps of mankind, there are natural maps of mankind. ... One of the first laws of political stability is to draw your political boundaries along the lines of the natural map of mankind."So wrote H.G. Wells in "What Is Coming: A Forecast of Things to Come After the War" in the year of Verdun and the Somme Offensive.In redrawing the map of Continue reading...
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