22 February 2013 Cut Commitments, Not Muscle

Cut Commitments, Not Muscle

Friday - February 22, 2013 at 3:44 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan In that year of happy memory, 1972, George McGovern, the Democratic nominee, declared he would chop defense by fully one-third. A friendly congressman was persuaded to ask Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird to expatiate on what this might mean. The Pentagon replied the Sixth Fleet might have to be pulled out of the Med, leaving Israel without U.S. protection against Continue reading...

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America Needs No More Neo-Imperial Nonsense

Tuesday - July 24, 2012 at 12:49 pm

By Patrick J. Buchanan - The Financial Times Triumphant in the first Gulf war, George H.W. Bush, in October 1991, went before the UN to declare that the US’s goal was now to build a “New World Order”. Rejecting this as Wilsonian utopianism, my 1992 presidential campaign called for an end to US military intervention where no vital interest was imperilled, for federal action to secure Continue reading...

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Tomorrow’s Man — or Yesterday’s

Friday - April 27, 2012 at 1:29 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan Among the GOP victories in 2010, none was sweeter than that of Marco Rubio. The charismatic young Cuban-American challenged Gov. Charlie Crist in a Senate primary, ran him out of the party and swept to victory by 19 points in a three-way race. Among those mentioned as running mates for Mitt Romney, it is Rubio who generates the most excitement. That he is young, 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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Marco Rubio vs. Rand Paul

Friday - December 9, 2011 at 12:01 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan In August 2008, as the world's leaders gathered in Beijing for the Olympic games, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, hot-headed and erratic, made his gamble for greatness. It began with a stunning artillery barrage on Tskhinvali, capital of tiny South Ossetia, a province that had broken free of Tbilisi when Tbilisi broke free of Russia. As Ossetians and Russian Continue reading...

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Is Obama Only Postponing the Inevitable?

Friday - June 24, 2011 at 1:15 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan In deciding to pull all of the 30,000 troops from the surge out of Afghanistan, six weeks before Election Day 2012, but only 10,000 by year's end, President Obama has satisfied neither the generals nor the doves. He has, however, well served his political interests. A larger drawdown would have risked the gains made in Kandahar and Helmand and invited a revolt of Continue reading...

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Fed Up With Freeloaders

Friday - June 17, 2011 at 2:00 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan "The most successful alliance in history," it was called at the end of the Cold War in which NATO, for 40 years, deterred the Red Army from overrunning Berlin or crashing through West Germany to the Channel. And when that Cold War was over, Sen. Richard Lugar famously said, "Either NATO goes out of area or goes out of business." In Afghanistan and Libya, NATO went Continue reading...

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