23 October 2012 Negotiations — or War With Iran?

Negotiations — or War With Iran?

Tuesday - October 23, 2012 at 1:47 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan "It would be unconscionable to go to war if we haven't had such discussions," said Nicholas Burns, under secretary of state in the Bush administration, of reports the Obama White House has agreed to one-on-one talks with Tehran over its nuclear program. Sen. Lindsey Graham dissented Sunday: "I think the time for talking is over. ... We talk, they enrich. It needs to Continue reading...

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Is It Time to Come Home?

Thursday - September 13, 2012 at 11:33 pm

By Patrick J. Buchanan Is 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...

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The Rising Irrelevance of Obama

Friday - March 18, 2011 at 1:50 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan "This will not stand!" declared George H.W. Bush. He was speaking of Saddam Hussein's invasion, occupation and annexation of the emirate of Kuwait as his "19th province." Seven months later, the Iraqi army was fleeing up the "Highway of Death" back into a country devastated by five weeks of U.S. bombing. When Bush spoke, the world sat up and listened. Consider Continue reading...

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It’s Their War, Not Ours

Tuesday - March 8, 2011 at 12:51 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan Before the United States plunges into a third war in the Middle East, let us think this one through, as we did not the last two. What would be the purpose of establishing a no-fly zone over Libya? According to advocates, to keep Moammar Gadhafi from using his air force to attack civilians. But if Gadhafi uses tanks to crush the rebellion, as Nikita Khrushchev did in Continue reading...

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The American Way of Abandonment

Friday - February 4, 2011 at 12:01 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan Hosni Mubarak, it appears, is not going to go quietly, or quickly. He is not going to play the role assigned him in the White House script that has him resigning and fleeing Egypt in the face of mass demonstrations in Tahrir Square. After U.S. diplomat Frank Wisner came to give Mubarak his marching orders, the Egyptian apparently decided that, if the Americans, Continue reading...

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The Fruits of Intervention

Friday - October 30, 2009 at 12:58 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan If we had it to do over, would we send an army into Afghanistan to build a nation? Would we invade Iraq? While these two wars have cost 5,200 dead, a trillion dollars and a divided America facing an endless war, what have we won? Continue reading...

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