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...
Robert Gates, Neo-Isolationist?
Thursday - March 3, 2011 at 11:56 pm
By Patrick J. Buchanan "(A)ny future defense secretary who advises the president to again send a big American land army into Asia or into the Middle East or Africa should 'have his head examined,' as Gen. MacArthur so delicately put it," Robert Gates has just told the cadets at West Point. America would be nuts, Gates is saying, to fight a new land war like the two he inherited. It Continue reading...
Are the Deficits Forever?
Friday - January 7, 2011 at 12:58 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan "The success of a party means little except when the nation is using that party for a large and definite purpose," said Woodrow Wilson in his first inaugural. "No one can mistake the purpose for which the nation now seeks to use the Democratic Party." As with Wilson's Democrats in 1913, so it is with the Republican Party today. It has been called to power for the Continue reading...
Liquidating the Empire
Tuesday - February 23, 2010 at 1:48 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan A decade ago, Oldsmobile went. Last year, Pontiac. Saturn, Saab and Hummer were discontinued. A thousand GM dealerships shut down. To those who grew up in a "GM family," where buying a Chrysler was like converting to Islam, what happened to GM was deeply saddening. Yet the amputations had to be done -- or GM would die. And the same may be about to happen to the Continue reading...
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