By Patrick J. BuchananOf our Libyan intervention, one thing may be safely said, and another safely predicted.When he launched his strikes on the Libyan army and regime, Barack Obama did not think it through. And this nation is now likely to be drawn even deeper into that war.For Moammar Gadhafi's forces not only survived the U.S. air and missile strikes, after which we turned the air Continue reading...
Are We Allied to a Corpse?
Tuesday - April 19, 2011 at 12:45 am
Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: Barack Obama, Europe, France, Iraq, Libya, Moammar Gadhafi, NATO, United States, War
Was Obama Stampeded Into War?
Wednesday - April 13, 2011 at 12:32 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan"NATO is moving very slowly, allowing Gadhafi forces to advance," said rebel leader Abdul Fattah Younis, as the Libyan army moved back to the outskirts of Ajdabiya, gateway city to Benghazi."NATO has become our problem."Younis is implying that if NATO does not stop Libyan soldiers from capturing Ajdabiya, the rebels may be defeated -- and NATO will be responsible Continue reading...
Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: Barack Obama, Congress, Foreign Policy, Libya, Middle East, Military, Moammar Gadhafi, State Department, War
A Community Organizer Goes to War
Thursday - March 31, 2011 at 11:55 pm
By Patrick J. BuchananNow that Benghazi has been spared what we were assured would be a massacre by Moammar Gadhafi's army, why are the U.S. Air Force, Navy, CIA and Special Forces still attacking in Libya?If our objective was to spare the defenseless people of Benghazi from slaughter, why, mission accomplished, did we not stop bombing? Why are we plunging deeper in?Did Gadhafi attack Continue reading...
Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: Barack Obama, George H.W. Bush, Libya, Middle East, Moammar Gadhafi, NATO, Ronald Reagan, Syria, War
Obama’s War
Tuesday - March 29, 2011 at 12:46 am
By Patrick J. BuchananIn ordering air and naval strikes on a country that neither threatened nor attacked the United States, did President Obama commit an impeachable act?So it would seem. For the framers of the Constitution were precise. The power to declare war is entrusted solely to Congress.From King William's War to Queen Anne's War to King George's War to the Seven Years' War, Continue reading...
Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: al-Qaida, Barack Obama, George H.W. Bush, Iran, John F. Kennedy, Libya, Moammar Gadhafi, NATO, Ronald Reagan, Syria, War
How Killing Libyans Became a Moral Imperative
Friday - March 25, 2011 at 12:54 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan"Who would be free themselves must strike the blow."So wrote the poet Byron, who would himself die just days after landing in Greece to join the war for independence from the Turks.But in that time, Americans followed the dictum of Washington, Adams and Jefferson: Stay out of foreign wars.America "goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the Continue reading...
Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: al-Qaida, Barack Obama, George H.W. Bush, Hillary Clinton, Libya, Moammar Gadhafi, War
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