By Patrick J. Buchanan"The worst mistake of my presidency," said Ronald Reagan of his decision to put Marines into the middle of Lebanon's civil war, where 241 died in a suicide bombing of their barracks.And if Barack Obama plunges into Syria's civil war, it could consume his presidency, even as Iraq consumed the presidency of George W. Bush.Why would Obama even consider Continue reading...
19 March 2013 
Was Iraq Worth It?
Tuesday - March 19, 2013 at 3:32 am
By Patrick J. BuchananTen 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...
26 February 2013 
Infantile Conservatism
Tuesday - February 26, 2013 at 1:11 am
by Patrick J. BuchananRegularly now, The Washington Post, as always concerned with fairness and balance, runs a blog called “Right Turn: Jennifer Rubin’s Take From a Conservative Perspective.”The blog tells us what the Post regards as conservatism.On Monday, Rubin declared that America’s “greatest national security threat is Iran.” Do conservatives really believe Continue reading...
22 February 2013 
Cut Commitments, Not Muscle
Friday - February 22, 2013 at 3:44 am
By Patrick J. BuchananIn that year of happy memory, 1972, George McGovern, the Democratic nominee, declared he would chop defense by fully one-third.A friendly congressman was persuaded to ask Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird to expatiate on what this might mean.The Pentagon replied the Sixth Fleet might have to be pulled out of the Med, leaving Israel without U.S. protection against Continue reading...
22 January 2013 
Clouds Over Obama’s Second Term
Tuesday - January 22, 2013 at 12:26 am
By Patrick J. BuchananRarely have second terms lived up to the hopes and expectations of presidents or their electorates.FDR's began with an attempt to pack the Supreme Court by adding new justices and a second Depression of 1937. He was rescued only by the war in Europe in 1939 and the GOP's nomination of "the barefoot boy from Wall Street," Wendell Willkie.What can be called Harry Continue reading...
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