The Dark Side of Diversity

The Dark Side of Diversity

By Patrick J. Buchanan "I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people," said Edmund Burke of the rebellious Americans. The same holds true of Islam, the majority faith of 49 nations from Morocco to Indonesia, a religion that 1.6 billion people profess. Yet, some assertions appear true. Islam is growing in militancy and intolerance, evolving again into a Continue reading...

The Smoking Gun of the Benghazi Cover-up

The Smoking Gun of the Benghazi Cover-up

By Patrick J. Buchanan On June 6 of this year, a bomb planted at the U.S. compound in Benghazi ripped a 12-foot-wide hole in the outer wall. On June 11, the British ambassador's motorcade was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade, wounding a medic and doctor. The next day, the ambassador was gone and the British Benghazi post was closed. At the same time, the Red Cross, after a second attack, Continue reading...

Behind the Benghazi Cover-Up

Behind the Benghazi Cover-Up

By Patrick J. Buchanan On Sept. 11, scores of men with automatic weapons and RPGs launched a night assault on the U.S. compound in Benghazi, killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and set the building ablaze. Using mortars, they launched a collateral attack on a safe house, killing two more Americans, as other U.S. agents fled to the airport. On Sept. 14, White House press secretary Jay Carney said Continue reading...

The Irreconcilable Conflict

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...

Has the Day of the Islamist Arrived?

By Patrick J. Buchanan Sixteen months after the United States abandoned its loyal satrap of 30 years, President Hosni Mubarak, to champion democracy in Egypt, the returns are in. Mohammed Morsi, candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood, is president of Egypt, while the military has dissolved the elected parliament that was dominated by the Brotherhood, and curbed his powers. The military and Continue reading...

Syria’s Insurrection Is Not America’s War

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...

Toulouse: The Dark Side of Diversity

By Patrick J. Buchanan As an act of pure evil it was difficult to match. After dragging the 8-year-old by her hair across a schoolyard, the killer put a 9 mm pistol to the girl's head and pulled the trigger. The gun jammed. So he took out a Colt .45 and finished her. She was one of four victims. The others -- a 30-year-old rabbi and his two boys. As the gunman had targeted a Jewish Continue reading...