28 December 2012 Why the War Party Fears Hagel

Why the War Party Fears Hagel

Friday - December 28, 2012 at 2:17 am

By Patrick J. BuchananIn the fortnight since Chuck Hagel's name was floated for secretary of defense, we have witnessed Washington at its worst.Who is Chuck Hagel?Born in North Platte, Neb., he was a squad leader in Vietnam, twice wounded, who came home to work in Ronald Reagan's 1980 campaign, was twice elected U.S. senator, and is chairman of the Atlantic Council and co-chair of the Continue reading...

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23 November 2012 Is Middle East Peace A Mirage

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...

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Israel in a Post-American Era

Thursday - May 19, 2011 at 11:55 pm

By Patrick J. BuchananIn 1918, the United States proved militarily decisive in the defeat of the Kaiser's Germany and emerged as first power on earth.World War II, ending in 1945, produced two truly victorious nations, the Soviet Union of Joseph Stalin and the America of Harry Truman.Out of the Cold War that lasted from Truman to the disintegration of the Soviet Empire and breakup of Continue reading...

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A Bibi-Barack Collision?

Tuesday - January 27, 2009 at 10:13 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan"Where there is no solution, there is no problem," geostrategist James Burnham once wryly observed.Ex-Sen. George Mitchell, the latest U.S. negotiator to take up the Palestine portfolio, may discover what it was that Burnham meant.For Israel's three-week war on Gaza, where Palestinians died at a rate of 100 to one to Israelis, appears to have been, like Israel's Continue reading...

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Bush, Obama and the Gaza Blitz

Tuesday - December 30, 2008 at 10:49 am

By Patrick J. BuchananUnwilling to control its fighters, who fired scores of missiles into Israel at the end of their six-month ceasefire, Hamas gave Israel the provocation it needed to deliver a savage blow to the Palestinian enclave in Gaza.Saturday was the bloodiest day in the history of the Palestinian people since being driven from their homes in the War of 1948. One thousand were Continue reading...

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