Clouds Over Obama’s Second Term

Clouds Over Obama’s Second Term

By Patrick J. BuchananRarely have second terms lived up to the hopes and expectations of presidents or their electorates.FDR's began with an attempt to pack the Supreme Court by adding new justices and a second Depression of 1937. He was rescued only by the war in Europe in 1939 and the GOP's nomination of "the barefoot boy from Wall Street," Wendell Willkie.What can be called Harry Continue reading...

Al-Qaida in the Heart of Africa

Al-Qaida in the Heart of Africa

By Patrick J. Buchanan"For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction" is Newton's third law of physics.Its counterpart in geopolitics is "blowback," when military action in one sphere produces an unintended and undesirable consequence in another.September 11, 2001, was blowback.George H.W. Bush had sent an army of half a million to hurl Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait, a Continue reading...

Who Fed Susan the Benghazi Bullhockey?

Who Fed Susan the Benghazi Bullhockey?

By Patrick J. BuchananAt his news conference Wednesday, President Barack Obama postured as the young Galahad striding out onto the schoolyard to stop a pair of bullies from beating up a girl.Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham had charged U.N. Amb. Susan Rice with misleading the nation when, five days after the Benghazi attack in which Amb. Chris Stevens and three other Americans were Continue reading...

The Unraveling of Obama’s Foreign Policy

The Unraveling of Obama’s Foreign Policy

By Patrick J. BuchananThree days after Ambassador Chris Stevens was assassinated, Jay Carney told the White House press corps it had been the work of a flash mob inflamed by an insulting video about the Prophet Muhammad.As the killers had arrived with rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons, this story seemed noncredible on its face.Yet two days later, U.N. Ambassador Susan Continue reading...

Is It Time to Come Home?

By Patrick J. BuchananIs it not long past time to do a cost-benefit analysis of our involvement in the Middle and Near East?In this brief century alone, we have fought the two longest wars in our history there, put our full moral authority behind an "Arab Spring" that brought down allies in Tunisia, Egypt and Yemen, and provided the air power that saved Benghazi and brought down Moammar Continue reading...