Bitter Fruits of Mideast Wars

Friday - October 2, 2009 at 1:06 am

By Patrick J. BuchananImpending today are two of the most critical decisions Barack Obama will ever make, which may determine the fate of his presidency, as well as the future of the United States in the Near and Middle East. Continue reading...

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Did Bibi Box Obama In?

Thursday - May 21, 2009 at 11:39 pm

By Patrick J. BuchananOn 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...

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Afghanistan South

Friday - March 6, 2009 at 1:01 am

By Patrick J. BuchananHeeding the advice of Gen. David Petraeus, Barack Obama has committed 17,000 more troops to Afghanistan and will keep 50,000 in Iraq after U.S. combat operations end in August 2010.But are U.S. vital interests more threatened by what happens in Anbar or Helmand than in the war raging along our southern border?Prediction: After all U.S. troops in Iraq, Afghanistan Continue reading...

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The Long Retreat

Friday - February 20, 2009 at 12:25 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan"The situation in Afghanistan is deteriorating," said President Obama, as he announced deployment of 17,000 more U.S. troops."I'm absolutely convinced that you cannot solve the problem of Afghanistan, the Taliban, the spread of extremism in that region, solely through military means.""(T)here is no military solution in Afghanistan," says Secretary of Defense Continue reading...

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Is Ehud’s Poodle Acting Up?

Saturday - January 17, 2009 at 11:45 am

by Patrick J. BuchananAs Israel entered the third week of its Gaza blitz, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert regaled a crowd in Ashkelon with an astonishing tale.He had, said Olmert, whistled up George Bush, interrupted him in the middle of a speech and told him to instruct Condi Rice not to vote for a U.N. resolution Condi herself had written. Bush did as told, said Olmert.The crowd loved it. Continue reading...

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