By Patrick J. Buchanan After his great victory in Desert Storm, George H.W. Bush went before the United Nations to declare the coming of a New World Order. The Cold War was yesterday. Communism was in its death throes. The Soviet Empire had crumbled. The Soviet Union was disintegrating. Francis Fukuyama was writing of "The End of History." Savants trilled about the inevitable triumph of Continue reading...
How Bill Kristol Purged the Arabists
Tuesday - May 29, 2012 at 1:02 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan After taping John Stossel's show on March 16 in New York, the Mrs. and I took the 10 a.m. Acela back to Washington. Once we had boarded the train, who should come waddling up the aisle but Bill Kristol. The Weekly Standard editor seemed cheerful, and we chatted about the surge in Mitt Romney's popularity and prospects. I did not ask what he had been doing in New Continue reading...
Is the Window Closing on Israel?
Friday - September 23, 2011 at 2:18 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan In June 1967, with ex-Vice President Richard Nixon, this writer toured an Israeli military hospital full of wounded Egyptian soldiers. An Israeli officer told us that in the hospital was an Egyptian officer he had captured in the 1956 Sinai campaign, and that he had asked the Egyptian: "We have fought three times now, and three times you have been defeated. Why do you Continue reading...
Looking Back at ‘The Good War’
Friday - September 2, 2011 at 12:00 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan In the early morning hours of Sept. 1, 1939, 72 years ago, the German army crossed the Polish frontier. On Sept. 3, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, having received no reply to his ultimatum demanding a German withdrawal, declared that a state of war now existed between Great Britain and Germany. The empire followed the mother country in. The second world Continue reading...
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