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 […]
Is It Time to Come Home?
Thursday - September 13, 2012 at 11:33 pm
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Loading...By Patrick J. Buchanan Is 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, […]
Has the Day of the Islamist Arrived?
Tuesday - June 26, 2012 at 3:14 am
Votes: 5.00 Stars!Loading...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 […]
Who Commissioned Us to Remake the World?
Friday - January 27, 2012 at 12:00 am
Votes: 4.85 Stars!Loading...By Patrick J. Buchanan U.S. Ambassador Michael McFaul, Obama’s man in Moscow, who just took up his post, has received a rude reception. And understandably so. In 1992, McFaul was the representative in Russia of the National Democratic Institute, a U.S. government-funded agency whose mission is to promote democracy abroad. The NDI has been tied […]
“Second Period of Islamic Power”
Monday - December 19, 2011 at 11:50 pm
Votes: 4.75 Stars!Loading...By Patrick J. Buchanan For the 30 years since “The McLaughlin Group” began to run on network television, the Christmas and New Year’s shows have been devoted to the conferring of annual awards. The first award on the Christmas show is “Biggest Winner.” This year, clearly, one of the world’s big winner was — Islam. […]
Is the Window Closing on Israel?
Friday - September 23, 2011 at 2:18 am
Votes: 4.87 Stars!Loading...By Patrick J. Buchanan In June 1967, with ex-Vice President Richard Nixon, this writer toured an Israeli military hospital full of wounded Egyptian soldiers. An Israeli officer told us that in the hospital was an Egyptian officer he had captured in the 1956 Sinai campaign, and that he had asked the Egyptian: “We have fought […]
The Democracy Worshipers
Friday - September 16, 2011 at 4:59 pm
Votes: 4.51 Stars!Loading...By Patrick J. Buchanan “Your people, sir, is … a great beast.” So Alexander Hamilton reputedly said in an argument with Thomas Jefferson. At the Constitutional Convention of 1787, Hamilton explained: “Real liberty is not found in the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments. If we incline too much to democracy, we shall soon […]
