by Patrick J. Buchanan "The American people are weary. They don't want boots on the ground. I don't want boots on the ground. The worst thing the United States could do right now is put boots on the ground in Syria." That was the leading Senate hawk favoring U.S. intervention in Syria's civil war. But by ruling out U.S. ground troops, John McCain was sending, perhaps unintentionally, another Continue reading...
10 May 2013 
Requiem for a Grand Old Party
Friday - May 10, 2013 at 12:39 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan Has the bell begun to toll for the GOP? The question arises while reading an analysis of Census Bureau statistics on the 2012 election by Dan Balz and Ted Mellnik. One sentence in their Washington Post story fairly leaps out: "The total number of white voters actually decreased between 2008 and 2012, the first such drop by any group within the population since Continue reading...
7 May 2013 
Who Are the War Criminals in Syria?
Tuesday - May 7, 2013 at 2:16 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan Last week, several polls came out assessing U.S. public opinion on intervention in Syria. According to the Huffington Post poll, Americans oppose U.S. air strikes on Syria by 3-to-1. They oppose sending arms to the rebels by 4-to-1. They oppose putting U.S. ground troops into Syria by 14-to-1. Democrats, Republicans and independents are all against getting involved in Continue reading...
30 April 2013 
Their War, Not Ours
Tuesday - April 30, 2013 at 1:26 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan "The worst mistake of my presidency," said Ronald Reagan of his decision to put Marines into the middle of Lebanon's civil war, where 241 died in a suicide bombing of their barracks. And if Barack Obama plunges into Syria's civil war, it could consume his presidency, even as Iraq consumed the presidency of George W. Bush. Why would Obama even consider Continue reading...
19 March 2013 
Buchanan: Anti-interventionism is On the Rise in the GOP
Tuesday - March 19, 2013 at 2:04 am
By Jeff Poor, Media Reporter - Listen at The Daily Caller On Laura Ingraham’s Monday radio show, conservative commentator Pat Buchanan said the anti-interventionist foreign policy views of Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul are catching on. Buchanan, author of “Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?,” took particular aim at conservative editor Bill Kristol, who on Sunday said Paul Continue reading...
12 March 2013 
Who Speaks Now for the GOP?
Tuesday - March 12, 2013 at 3:23 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan Last Wednesday, Sen. Rand Paul rose on the Senate floor to declare a filibuster and pledge he would not sit down until either he could speak no longer or got an answer to his question about Barack Obama's war powers. Does the president, Paul demanded to know, in the absence of an imminent threat, have the right to order U.S. citizens killed by drone strike on U.S. Continue reading...
1 February 2013 
The GOP’s Amnesty Caucus Raises the White Flag
Friday - February 1, 2013 at 3:33 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan On Monday, Sens. John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Jeff Flake and Marco Rubio emerged with an offer of a Republican surrender to Barack Obama. We will accept amnesty for 11 million illegal aliens, said the four, but you must get serious about securing the border against yet another invasion. Only after an independent commission agrees the border has been secured will the 11 Continue reading...
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