What Must We Defend?

Tuesday - May 31, 2011 at 10:27 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan "We need to be honest with the president, with the Congress, with the American people" about the consequences of cutting the defense budget, said Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in his valedictory policy address to the American Enterprise Institute. "(A) smaller military, no matter how superb, will be able to go fewer places and do fewer things." Gates seeks to Continue reading...

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Are We Allied to a Corpse?

Tuesday - April 19, 2011 at 12:45 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan Of our Libyan intervention, one thing may be safely said, and another safely predicted. When he launched his strikes on the Libyan army and regime, Barack Obama did not think it through. And this nation is now likely to be drawn even deeper into that war. For Moammar Gadhafi's forces not only survived the U.S. air and missile strikes, after which we turned the air Continue reading...

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Robert Gates, Neo-Isolationist?

Thursday - March 3, 2011 at 11:56 pm

By Patrick J. Buchanan "(A)ny future defense secretary who advises the president to again send a big American land army into Asia or into the Middle East or Africa should 'have his head examined,' as Gen. MacArthur so delicately put it," Robert Gates has just told the cadets at West Point. America would be nuts, Gates is saying, to fight a new land war like the two he inherited. It Continue reading...

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Will Multiculturalism End Europe?

Tuesday - February 15, 2011 at 3:49 pm

By Patrick J. Buchanan Multiculturalism has "totally failed," says German Chancellor Angela Merkel. "State multiculturalism has had disastrous results," says Britain's David Cameron. Is multiculturalism a failure in France? "My answer is clearly yes, it is a failure," says President Nicolas Sarkozy. Ex-Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar has declared multiculturalism a failure in Spain, Continue reading...

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And the Debt Bomb Ticks On

Thursday - January 27, 2011 at 1:56 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan With his approval rating moving up to 50 percent and higher in some polls, the pundits are all agreed. President Obama has turned the corner. He is now the winter-book favorite in 2012. How, two months after his "shellacking," did he do it? First, by taking the wheel from Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, cutting a deal to extend the Bush tax cuts, bringing aboard Bill Continue reading...

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Can Democracy Cope?

Tuesday - December 14, 2010 at 2:23 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan For those who have read about or vaguely remember the stolid British tribe of Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain and the Blitz, which held out in its "finest hour," last week brought a disgusting sight. Mobs in Parliament Square set fire to the statue of 19th century statesman Lord Palmerston and urinated on the statue of Winston Churchill. Pink Floyd's kid was swinging by Continue reading...

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Why Are We Still in Korea?

Friday - November 26, 2010 at 12:03 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan This writer was 11 years old when the shocking news came on June 25, 1950, that North Korean armies had crossed the DMZ. Within days, Seoul had fallen. Routed U.S. and Republic of Korea troops were retreating toward an enclave in the southeast corner of the peninsula that came to be known as the Pusan perimeter. In September came Gen. MacArthur's masterstroke: the Continue reading...

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