by Patrick J. Buchanan "Taliban Are Winning: U.S. Commander in Afghanistan Warns of Rising Casualties." Thus ran the startling headline on the front-page of The Wall Street Journal. The lead paragraph ran thus: "The Taliban have gained the upper hand in Afghanistan, the top American commander there said, forcing the U.S. to change its strategy in the eight-year-old conflict by increasing the Continue reading...
Unwinnable War?
Friday - August 14, 2009 at 1:32 am
Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, NATO, War
Has Obama’s Luck Run Out?
Friday - July 24, 2009 at 12:06 am
by Patrick J. Buchanan "The sound alone was worth the $24 billion!" So said fellow Nixon speechwriter Ray Price as the mighty Saturn V rocket lifted Apollo 11 and Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins off the launch pad, three miles away, on the start of their voyage to the moon. It was a splendid moment in that first year of the Nixon presidency, a year that had gone remarkably well for a Continue reading...
Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, NATO, Pakistan, Richard M. Nixon, War
Why Europe Won’t Fight
Thursday - April 9, 2009 at 11:50 pm
By Patrick J. Buchanan "No one will say this publicly, but the true fact is we are all talking about our exit strategy from Afghanistan. We are getting out. It may take a couple of years, but we are all looking to get out." Thus did a "senior European diplomat" confide to The New York Times during Obama's trip to Strasbourg. Europe is bailing out on us. Afghanistan is to be America's Continue reading...
Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Europe, NATO, War
Can Uncle Sam Ever Let Go?
Thursday - March 26, 2009 at 11:05 pm
By Patrick J. Buchanan "In 1877, Lord Salisbury, commenting on Great Britain's policy on the Eastern Question, noted that 'the commonest error in politics is sticking to the carcass of dead policies.' "Salisbury was bemoaning the fact that many influential members of the British ruling class could not recognize that history had moved on; they continued to cling to policies and institutions Continue reading...
Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: Barack Obama, George Bush, NATO, Russia
The Long Retreat
Friday - February 20, 2009 at 12:25 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan "The situation in Afghanistan is deteriorating," said President Obama, as he announced deployment of 17,000 more U.S. troops. "I'm absolutely convinced that you cannot solve the problem of Afghanistan, the Taliban, the spread of extremism in that region, solely through military means." "(T)here is no military solution in Afghanistan," says Secretary of Defense Continue reading...
Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Economy, George Bush, Hugo Chavez, Iraq, Latin America, NATO, Russia, Venezuela
Obama’s War
Friday - December 19, 2008 at 1:16 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan Just two months after the twin towers fell, the armies of the Northern Alliance marched into Kabul. The Taliban fled. The triumph was total in the "splendid little war" that had cost one U.S. casualty. Or so it seemed. Yet, last month, the war against the Taliban entered its eighth year, the second longest war in our history, and America and NATO have never been nearer Continue reading...
Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, NATO, Pakistan
Meeting Medvedev Halfway
Tuesday - November 25, 2008 at 1:29 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan The morning after Barack Obama's election, the congratulatory message from Moscow was in the chilliest tradition of the Cold War. "I hope for constructive dialogue with you," said Russia's president, "based on trust and considering each other's interests." Dmitry Medvedev went on that day, in his first State of the Union, to charge America with fomenting the Continue reading...
Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: Barack Obama, NATO, Neocons, Russia, Vladimir Putin
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