Return of the Anti-Interventionist Right

Tuesday - June 7, 2011 at 1:01 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan Late 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...

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What Must We Defend?

Tuesday - May 31, 2011 at 10:27 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan "We need to be honest with the president, with the Congress, with the American people" about the consequences of cutting the defense budget, said Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in his valedictory policy address to the American Enterprise Institute. "(A) smaller military, no matter how superb, will be able to go fewer places and do fewer things." Gates seeks to Continue reading...

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Israel in a Post-American Era

Thursday - May 19, 2011 at 11:55 pm

By Patrick J. Buchanan In 1918, the United States proved militarily decisive in the defeat of the Kaiser's Germany and emerged as first power on earth. World War II, ending in 1945, produced two truly victorious nations, the Soviet Union of Joseph Stalin and the America of Harry Truman. Out of the Cold War that lasted from Truman to the disintegration of the Soviet Empire and breakup of Continue reading...

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The Vanishing American Footprint

Thursday - May 5, 2011 at 11:53 pm

By Patrick J. Buchanan With his order to effect the execution of Osama bin Laden by Navy SEALs, 40 miles from Islamabad, without asking permission of the government, Barack Obama made a bold and courageous decision. Its success, and the accolades he has received, have given him a credibility as commander in chief that he never had before. The law professor, it turns out, is a Continue reading...

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Are We Allied to a Corpse?

Tuesday - April 19, 2011 at 12:45 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan Of 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...

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A Community Organizer Goes to War

Thursday - March 31, 2011 at 11:55 pm

By Patrick J. Buchanan Now 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...

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Obama’s War

Tuesday - March 29, 2011 at 12:46 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan In 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...

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