30 April 2013 Their War, Not Ours

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...

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23 November 2012 Is Middle East Peace A Mirage

Is Middle East Peace A Mirage

Friday - November 23, 2012 at 12:07 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan With the truce in the week-long Gaza war, Barack Obama is being prompted by right and left to re-engage and renew U.S. efforts to solve the core question of Middle East peace. Before he gets reinvolved in peacemaking, our once-burned president should ask himself some hard questions. Is real peace between Palestinians and Israelis even possible? Is there any Continue reading...

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12 October 2012 Stay out of the Syrian Maelstrom

Stay out of the Syrian Maelstrom

Friday - October 12, 2012 at 12:50 am

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...

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The Natural Map of the Middle East

Tuesday - August 7, 2012 at 4:53 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan "Apart from political maps of mankind, there are natural maps of mankind. ... One of the first laws of political stability is to draw your political boundaries along the lines of the natural map of mankind." So wrote H.G. Wells in "What Is Coming: A Forecast of Things to Come After the War" in the year of Verdun and the Somme Offensive. In redrawing the map of Continue reading...

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Has the Day of the Islamist Arrived?

Tuesday - June 26, 2012 at 3:14 am

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...

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On to Tehran — or Is It Damascus?

Tuesday - February 14, 2012 at 1:39 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan Our War Party has been temporarily diverted from its clamor for war on Iran by the insurrection against the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad. Estimates of the dead since the Syrian uprising began a year ago approach 6,000. And responsibility for the carnage is being laid at the feet of the president who succeeded his dictator-father Hafez al-Assad, who ruled from 1971 Continue reading...

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Our Innocents Abroad?

Tuesday - January 3, 2012 at 12:51 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan Friday's lead stories in The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal dealt with what both viewed as a national affront and outrage. Egyptian soldiers, said the Post, "stormed the offices" of three U.S. "democracy-building organizations ... in a dramatic escalation of a crackdown by the military-led government that could imperil its relations with the United Continue reading...

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