By Patrick J. Buchanan "This will not stand!" declared George H.W. Bush. He was speaking of Saddam Hussein's invasion, occupation and annexation of the emirate of Kuwait as his "19th province." Seven months later, the Iraqi army was fleeing up the "Highway of Death" back into a country devastated by five weeks of U.S. bombing. When Bush spoke, the world sat up and listened. Consider Continue reading...
How the Chinese Must See Us
Saturday - January 22, 2011 at 6:40 pm
By Patrick J. Buchanan "O would some power the gift to give us to see ourselves as others see us," wrote the poet Robert Burns. As Hu Jintao wings his way home, America's hectoring still ringing in his ears, he must be thinking that maybe we Americans should stop lecturing them and take a closer look at ourselves. Revalue your currency, we demand of the Chinese, stop running these trade Continue reading...
Yankee Utopians in a Chinese Century
Tuesday - July 6, 2010 at 1:39 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan For those who can yet recall the backyard blast furnaces of Mao's China in the 1950s and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution to re-instill peasant values in the 1970s, the news was jarring. In 2011, said the Financial Times, China will surpass the United States as first manufacturing power, a title America has held since surpassing Great Britain around Continue reading...
The Wars of Tribe and Faith
Friday - March 19, 2010 at 12:20 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan When the Soviet Union disintegrated, most Americans likely had never heard of Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan or Turkmenistan. Yet the ethnonationalism of these Asian peoples, boiling to the surface after centuries of tsarist and communist repression, helped tear apart one of the great empires of history. There swiftly followed the collapse of Yugoslavia. Yet, Continue reading...
Dismantling America
Thursday - March 11, 2010 at 11:04 pm
By Patrick J. Buchanan Though Bush 41 and Bush 43 often disagreed, one issue did unite them both with Bill Clinton: protectionism. Globalists all, they rejected any federal measure to protect America's industrial base, economic independence or the wages of U.S. workers. Together they rammed through NAFTA, brought America under the World Trade Organization, abolished tariffs and granted Continue reading...
The Bankrupt PIGS of Europe
Tuesday - February 9, 2010 at 1:07 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan They are called the PIGS -- Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Spain. What they have in common is that all are facing deficits and debts that could bring on national defaults and break up the European Union. What brought the PIGS to the edge of the abyss? Continue reading...
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