By Patrick J. Buchanan Sixteen months after the United States abandoned its loyal satrap of 30 years, President Hosni Mubarak, to champion democracy in Egypt, the returns are in. Mohammed Morsi, candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood, is president of Egypt, while the military has dissolved the elected parliament that was dominated by the Brotherhood, and curbed his powers. The military and Continue reading...
Dress Rehearsal for a Mideast War?
By Patrick J. Buchanan "History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes," said Mark Twain. Observing the uprising in Syria, the atrocities, the intervention by rival powers, it all calls to mind the Great Rehearsal for World War II, the Spanish Civil War. The war began in 1936 with an uprising in Morocco of Spanish Nationalists against a Madrid regime seen as anti-Catholic, Marxist Continue reading...
Syria’s Insurrection Is Not America’s War
By Patrick J. Buchanan In pushing for U.S. military intervention in Syria — arming the insurgents and using U.S. air power to “create safe zones” for anti-regime forces “inside Syria’s borders” — The Washington Post invokes “vital U.S. interests” that are somehow imperiled there. Exactly what these vital interests are is left unexplained. For 40 years, we have lived with Continue reading...
Buchanan Against the Conservatives
by Laurence M. Vance - LewRockwell.com It’s not just the liberals who are against Pat Buchanan. When it comes to the issue of foreign policy, the conservatives are against him as well. Most all of them. With the exception of Ron Paul, the current and former Republican presidential candidates are against him – Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Rick Perry, and Herman Cain. And Continue reading...
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