By Patrick J. BuchananLate last month, when U.S. air strikes caused civilian casualties in Afghanistan, an angry Hamid Karzai issued an ultimatum.If future U.S. strikes are not restricted, we will take "unilateral action" and America may be treated like an "occupying power."That brought this blistering retort from one Republican hawk."If President Karzai continues with these public Continue reading...
Return of the Anti-Interventionist Right
Tuesday - June 7, 2011 at 1:01 am
Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: Afghanistan, Bill Clinton, Dennis Kucinich, Foreign Aid, George W. Bush, GOP, Iraq, Libya, Military, Moammar Gadhafi, NATO, Neocon, President, Sarah Palin, War
Are We Allied to a Corpse?
Tuesday - April 19, 2011 at 12:45 am
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...
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
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