By Patrick J. Buchanan "In Syria, I will work ... to identify and organize those members of the opposition who share our values and ensure they obtain the arms they need to defeat Assad's tanks, helicopters and fighter jets." This commitment by Mitt Romney in his VMI address has thrilled the neocons as much as it has unsettled the realists in his camp. And the reasons for the latter's Continue reading...
The Irreconcilable Conflict
Tuesday - September 18, 2012 at 1:05 am
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 so inflamed against us, perhaps we should inspect more closely our Continue reading...
Syria’s Insurrection Is Not America’s War
Tuesday - June 5, 2012 at 1:09 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan In 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...
Who Commissioned Us to Remake the World?
Friday - January 27, 2012 at 12:00 am
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 to color-coded or Orange revolutions such as Continue reading...
Is the Window Closing on Israel?
Friday - September 23, 2011 at 2:18 am
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 three times now, and three times you have been defeated. Why do you Continue reading...
Onward Into Waziristan!
Friday - August 3, 2007 at 1:14 am
by Patrick J. Buchanan With Hillary Clinton's lead growing, Barack Obama appears to be overreaching to keep the spotlight and highlight their differences. His suggestion that sex education begin in kindergarten seems a great leap forward even for a liberal Democrat. While Barack says it must be "age-appropriate" sex education, one need not be Roger Ailes to imagine what the GOP oppo-research Continue reading...
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