By Patrick J. Buchanan - The Financial TimesTriumphant in the first Gulf war, George H.W. Bush, in October 1991, went before the UN to declare that the US’s goal was now to build a “New World Order”.Rejecting this as Wilsonian utopianism, my 1992 presidential campaign called for an end to US military intervention where no vital interest was imperilled, for federal action to secure Continue reading...
Why This Obsession With Iran?
Friday - July 6, 2012 at 2:31 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan"Iran is not seeking to have the atomic bomb, possession of which is pointless, dangerous and is a great sin from an intellectual and a religious point of view."Thus did supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declare in February that Iran's possession of atomic weapons would be a mortal sin against Allah.It is also the unanimous judgment of the U.S. intelligence Continue reading...
Syria’s Insurrection Is Not America’s War
Tuesday - June 5, 2012 at 1:09 am
By Patrick J. BuchananIn 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...
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