by Patrick J. Buchanan That Iran is building a secret underground facility near the holy city of Qom, under custody of the Revolutionary Guard -- too small to be a production center for nuclear fuel, but just right for the enrichment of uranium to weapons grade -- is grounds for concern, but not panic. Continue reading...
Is Iran Nearing a Bomb?
Tuesday - September 29, 2009 at 12:45 am
Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: Barack Obama, Iran, Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
Tell Israel: Cool the Jets
Friday - July 31, 2009 at 1:37 am
by Patrick J. Buchanan July 31, 2009 Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, who is wired into the cabinet of "Bibi" Netanyahu, warns that if Iran's nuclear program is not aborted by December, Israel will strike to obliterate it. Defense Secretary Gates' mission to Israel this week, says Bolton, to relay Obama's red light, was listened to attentively, but will not be decisive. Israel will Continue reading...
Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: Barack Obama, Bibi Netanyahu, Iran, Israel, Joe Biden, War
Ten Days That Shook Tehran
Tuesday - June 23, 2009 at 12:24 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan Given its monopoly of guns, bet on the Iranian regime. But, in the long run, the ayatollahs have to see the handwriting on the wall. Let us assume what they insist upon -- that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won the June 12 election; that, even if fraud occurred, it did not decide the outcome. As Ayatollah Khamenei said to loud laughter in his Friday sermon declaring the election Continue reading...
Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: Barack Obama, Iran
Tiananmen Moments
Friday - June 19, 2009 at 12:57 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan On Dec. 14, 1825, following the death of Alexander I -- who had seen off Napoleon -- his brother, the grand duke, who had just taken the oath as Czar Nicholas I, was confronted by mutinous troops and rebels in Senate Square before the Winter Palace. For hours, the czar stood at the end of the square as the crowd shouted for a constitution or for Nicholas' brother Continue reading...
Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: Barack Obama, China, Iran
Outlasting the Ayatollahs
Tuesday - June 16, 2009 at 12:19 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan The Obama policy of extending an open hand to Iran is working and ought not be abandoned because of the grim events in Tehran. For the Iranian theocracy has just administered a body blow to its legitimacy in the eyes of the Iranian people and the world. Before Saturday, the regime could credibly posture as defender of the nation, defiant in the face of the threats Continue reading...
The Anti-Reagan
Tuesday - June 9, 2009 at 1:15 pm
By Patrick J. Buchanan Despite his boldness, Barack Obama seems as fated to fail as were Woodrow Wilson and Jimmy Carter. And for the same reason: a belief in his own righteousness and moral superiority, and a belief that his ideals and his persona count mightily in the modern world. Wilson declaimed about America's fight to "make the world safe for democracy" when in harness with the Continue reading...
Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: Barack Obama, Cuba, Guantanamo, Iran, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Turkey, Woodrow Wilson
Did Bibi Box Obama In?
Thursday - May 21, 2009 at 11:39 pm
By Patrick J. Buchanan On Sept. 20, 2002, as the War Party was beating the drum for preventive war on Iraq, lest we wake up to "a mushroom cloud over an American city," The Wall Street Journal introduced an eminent voice to confirm that, yes, Saddam was driving straight for an atomic bomb. "This is a dictator who is ... feverishly trying to acquire nuclear weapons," wrote Bibi Netanyahu, Continue reading...
Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: AIPAC, Barack Obama, Bibi Netanyahu, Hillary Clinton, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Neocons, War
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