By Patrick J. BuchananAppearing alongside CIA Director David Petraeus before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence last week, James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, said of Iran:"We don't believe they've actually made the decision to go ahead with a nuclear weapon."Before the hearing, as James Fallows of The Atlantic reports, Clapper released his "Worldwide Threat Continue reading...
Our Innocents Abroad?
Tuesday - January 3, 2012 at 12:51 am
By Patrick J. BuchananFriday's lead stories in The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal dealt with what both viewed as a national affront and outrage.Egyptian soldiers, said the Post, "stormed the offices" of three U.S. "democracy-building organizations ... in a dramatic escalation of a crackdown by the military-led government that could imperil its relations with the United Continue reading...
Was Awlaki an American?
Tuesday - October 4, 2011 at 1:21 am
By Patrick J. BuchananFriday morning, Predator drones operated by the CIA and Joint Special Operations Command rendezvoused over Yemen and launched Hellfire missiles that blew to pieces the radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.A declared enemy in the war on terror was eliminated.Yet Awlaki was a U.S. citizen.Reps. Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul denounced the action. Kucinich said President Continue reading...
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