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...
‘The Most Dangerous Man in the World’?
Friday - August 17, 2012 at 12:53 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan U.S. newspapers this fall will devote countless column inches and network TV will set aside endless hours to revisiting the most perilous month in the history of the republic, if not of the world.Nikita Khrushchev's decision to secretly install nuclear-armed intermediate-range ballistic missiles in Cuba began to form in his mind sometime earlier, perhaps in April of Continue reading...
The Natural Map of the Middle East
Tuesday - August 7, 2012 at 4:53 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan"Apart from political maps of mankind, there are natural maps of mankind. ... One of the first laws of political stability is to draw your political boundaries along the lines of the natural map of mankind."So wrote H.G. Wells in "What Is Coming: A Forecast of Things to Come After the War" in the year of Verdun and the Somme Offensive.In redrawing the map of Continue reading...
Is Mitt Being Neoconned Into War?
Tuesday - July 31, 2012 at 2:34 am
By Patrick J. BuchananHas Mitt Romney given Israel a blank check for war?So it seemed from the declaration in Jerusalem by his adviser Dan Senor, who all but flashed Israel a green light for war, signaling the Israelis that, if you go, Mitt's got your back:"If Israel has to take action on its own in order to stop Iran from developing that capability, the governor would respect that Continue reading...
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