By Patrick J. Buchanan Ten years ago today, U.S. air, sea and land forces attacked Iraq. And the great goals of Operation Iraqi Freedom? Destroy the chemical and biological weapons Saddam Hussein had amassed to use on us or transfer to al-Qaida for use against the U.S. homeland. Exact retribution for Saddam's complicity in 9/11 after we learned his agents had met secretly in Prague with Continue reading...
21 December 2012 
Why God Created the GOP
Friday - December 21, 2012 at 3:55 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan "God put the Republican Party on earth to cut taxes. If they don't do that, they have no useful function." Columnist Robert Novak was speaking of the party that embraced the revolution of Ronald Reagan, who had hung a portrait of Calvin Coolidge in his Cabinet Room and set about cutting income tax rates to 28 percent. But, to be historically precise, the GOP was not Continue reading...
Is It Time to Come Home?
Thursday - September 13, 2012 at 11:33 pm
By Patrick J. Buchanan Is 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...
Marco Rubio vs. Rand Paul
Friday - December 9, 2011 at 12:01 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan In August 2008, as the world's leaders gathered in Beijing for the Olympic games, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, hot-headed and erratic, made his gamble for greatness. It began with a stunning artillery barrage on Tskhinvali, capital of tiny South Ossetia, a province that had broken free of Tbilisi when Tbilisi broke free of Russia. As Ossetians and Russian Continue reading...
A Middle East Without America?
Friday - February 18, 2011 at 1:25 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan The fever sweeping the Middle East is now coursing through Libya, Yemen, Iran and Bahrain, where the U.S. Fifth Fleet is based. In all four nations, state violence is being used to crush the rebels, and regime survival hangs on whether security forces and the army stand behind the government or stand aside. A new Middle East is dawning. What will it look Continue reading...
Bush’s New ‘Axis of Evil’
Friday - February 11, 2011 at 4:43 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan George W. Bush must have been the despair of the history department of every school his daddy managed to get him into. Consider his latest excursion into the history of the republic, at Southern Methodist, where the Great Man's papers are to be housed. "What's interesting about our country, if you study history, is that there are some 'isms' that occasionally pop Continue reading...
Who Lost the Middle East?
Tuesday - January 18, 2011 at 11:18 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown, especially today in the Maghreb and Middle East. For the ouster of Tunisia's Zine El Abidine Ben Ali has sent shock waves from Rabat to Riyadh. Autocrats, emirs and kings have to be asking themselves: If rioters can bring down Ben Ali with his ruthless security forces, what prevents this from happening here? Millions of Continue reading...
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