Of Patriots and Assassins

Tuesday - March 17, 2009 at 12:08 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan During Nixon's historic trip to China in 1972, his interpreter and I, free for a few hours, conscripted a driver to take us on a tour of Beijing. Somewhere in my files are photos from that day we toured the grim city of Chairman Mao in the time of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. The interpreter: Charles Freeman -- the same Charles Freeman Adm. Dennis Blair Continue reading...

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Return of the War Party

Friday - February 27, 2009 at 12:30 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan "Real men go to Tehran!" brayed the neoconservatives, after the success of their propaganda campaign to have America march on Baghdad and into an unnecessary war that has forfeited all the fruits of our Cold War victory. Now they are back, in pursuit of what has always been their great goal: an American war on Iran. It would be a mistake to believe they and their Continue reading...

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A Bibi-Barack Collision?

Tuesday - January 27, 2009 at 10:13 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan "Where there is no solution, there is no problem," geostrategist James Burnham once wryly observed. Ex-Sen. George Mitchell, the latest U.S. negotiator to take up the Palestine portfolio, may discover what it was that Burnham meant. For Israel's three-week war on Gaza, where Palestinians died at a rate of 100 to one to Israelis, appears to have been, like Israel's Continue reading...

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Is Ehud’s Poodle Acting Up?

Saturday - January 17, 2009 at 11:45 am

by Patrick J. Buchanan As 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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Bush, Obama and the Gaza Blitz

Tuesday - December 30, 2008 at 10:49 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan Unwilling to control its fighters, who fired scores of missiles into Israel at the end of their six-month ceasefire, Hamas gave Israel the provocation it needed to deliver a savage blow to the Palestinian enclave in Gaza. Saturday was the bloodiest day in the history of the Palestinian people since being driven from their homes in the War of 1948. One thousand were Continue reading...

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Can This Marriage Last?

Friday - December 5, 2008 at 1:41 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan Having savaged each other for a year, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have now formed a rare partnership in power. Not since James Garfield chose James G. Blaine has a new president chosen his principal rival to be secretary of state. What does this tell us? First, don't take campaign oratory all that seriously. Second, unlike Dennis Kucinich, Ted Kennedy, Ron Continue reading...

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The Neocons’ Palin Project

Tuesday - September 16, 2008 at 12:55 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan Will the neocons who tutored George W. Bush in the ideology he pursued to the ruin of his presidency do the same for Sarah Palin? Should they succeed, they will destroy her. Yet, they are moving even now to capture this princess of the right and hope of the party. In St. Paul, Palin was told to cancel a meeting with Phyllis Schlafly and pro-life conservatives. Continue reading...

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