By Patrick J. BuchananIn diplomacy, always leave your adversary an honorable avenue of retreat.Fifty years ago this October, to resolve a Cuban missile crisis that had brought us to the brink of nuclear war, JFK did that.He conveyed to Nikita Khrushchev, secretly, that if the Soviet Union pulled its nuclear missiles out of Cuba, the United States would soon after pull its Jupiter Continue reading...
‘The Most Dangerous Man in the World’?
Friday - August 17, 2012 at 12:53 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan U.S. newspapers this fall will devote countless column inches and network TV will set aside endless hours to revisiting the most perilous month in the history of the republic, if not of the world.Nikita Khrushchev's decision to secretly install nuclear-armed intermediate-range ballistic missiles in Cuba began to form in his mind sometime earlier, perhaps in April of Continue reading...
Is Mitt Being Neoconned Into War?
Tuesday - July 31, 2012 at 2:34 am
By Patrick J. BuchananHas Mitt Romney given Israel a blank check for war?So it seemed from the declaration in Jerusalem by his adviser Dan Senor, who all but flashed Israel a green light for war, signaling the Israelis that, if you go, Mitt's got your back:"If Israel has to take action on its own in order to stop Iran from developing that capability, the governor would respect that Continue reading...
Why This Obsession With Iran?
Friday - July 6, 2012 at 2:31 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan"Iran is not seeking to have the atomic bomb, possession of which is pointless, dangerous and is a great sin from an intellectual and a religious point of view."Thus did supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declare in February that Iran's possession of atomic weapons would be a mortal sin against Allah.It is also the unanimous judgment of the U.S. intelligence Continue reading...
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