Ideology vs. the National Interest

By Patrick J. BuchananWhen a nation fights for its life, ideology goes by the board.Gen. Washington danced a jig when he heard King Louis XVI had become a fighting ally in our Revolutionary War against the Mother of Parliaments.In our Civil War, Abraham Lincoln made himself a dictator, closing newspapers, suspending habeas corpus, and locking up editors and legislators.Woodrow Continue reading...

The American Way of Abandonment

By Patrick J. BuchananHosni Mubarak, it appears, is not going to go quietly, or quickly.He is not going to play the role assigned him in the White House script that has him resigning and fleeing Egypt in the face of mass demonstrations in Tahrir Square.After U.S. diplomat Frank Wisner came to give Mubarak his marching orders, the Egyptian apparently decided that, if the Americans, Continue reading...

Winners and Losers From a Pharaoh’s Fall

By Patrick J. BuchananAmong the biggest losers of the Egyptian uprising are, first, the Mubaraks, who are finished, and, next, the United States and Israel.Hosni Mubarak will be out by year's end, if not the end of this month, or week. He will not run again and will not be succeeded by son Gamal, whom he had groomed and who has fled to London.Today, the lead party in determining Continue reading...