By Patrick J. Buchanan"I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people," said Edmund Burke of the rebellious Americans.The same holds true of Islam, the majority faith of 49 nations from Morocco to Indonesia, a religion that 1.6 billion people profess.Yet, some assertions appear true.Islam is growing in militancy and intolerance, evolving again into a Continue reading...
America’s Last Crusade
Tuesday - September 25, 2012 at 4:57 am
By Patrick J. BuchananFor Americans of the Greatest Generation that fought World War II and of the Silent Generation that came of age in the 1950s, the great moral and ideological cause was the Cold War.It gave purpose and clarity to our politics and foreign policy, and our lives.From the fall of Berlin in 1945 to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, that Cold War was waged by two Continue reading...
The Irreconcilable Conflict
Tuesday - September 18, 2012 at 1:05 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan"Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,"Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat."Thus did Kipling, the Poet of Empire, caution the British about the Eastern world the Victorians and Edwardians believed to be theirs.And with that world so inflamed against us, perhaps we should inspect more closely our Continue reading...
Is It Time to Come Home?
Thursday - September 13, 2012 at 11:33 pm
By Patrick J. BuchananIs it not long past time to do a cost-benefit analysis of our involvement in the Middle and Near East?In this brief century alone, we have fought the two longest wars in our history there, put our full moral authority behind an "Arab Spring" that brought down allies in Tunisia, Egypt and Yemen, and provided the air power that saved Benghazi and brought down Moammar Continue reading...
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