By Patrick J. BuchananIn pushing for U.S. military intervention in Syria — arming the insurgents and using U.S. air power to “create safe zones” for anti-regime forces “inside Syria’s borders” — The Washington Post invokes “vital U.S. interests” that are somehow imperiled there.Exactly what these vital interests are is left unexplained.For 40 years, we have lived with Continue reading...
On to Tehran — or Is It Damascus?
Tuesday - February 14, 2012 at 1:39 am
By Patrick J. BuchananOur War Party has been temporarily diverted from its clamor for war on Iran by the insurrection against the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad.Estimates of the dead since the Syrian uprising began a year ago approach 6,000. And responsibility for the carnage is being laid at the feet of the president who succeeded his dictator-father Hafez al-Assad, who ruled from 1971 Continue reading...
Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: Afghanistan, al-Qaida, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Bashar al-Assad, Hosni Mubarak, Iran, Iraq, Joe Lieberman, John McCain, Libya, Lindsey Graham, Muslim, Muslim Brotherhood, NATO, Neocon, Neocons, Osama Bin Laden, Russia, Syria, War
Democratic Dawn — or Darkness?
Thursday - May 26, 2011 at 11:18 pm
By Patrick J. Buchanan"Right now, socially, we are disintegrating."So says Mohamed ElBaradei, former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency and potential candidate for president of Egypt.Indeed, post-revolutionary Egypt appears to be coming apart.Since the heady days of Tahrir Square, Salafis have been killing Christians. Churches have been destroyed. Gangs have conducted Continue reading...
Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: China, Christians, Diversity, Egypt, GATT, Globalism, Hosni Mubarak, Iraq, Middle East, NAFTA, Syria, World Trade Organization
When Dictators Fall, Who Rises?
Tuesday - April 26, 2011 at 12:06 am
By Patrick J. BuchananOne month before the invasion of Iraq, Riah Abu el-Assal, a Palestinian and the Anglican bishop of Jerusalem at the time, warned Tony Blair, "You will be responsible for emptying Iraq, the homeland of Abraham, of Christians."The bishop proved a prophet. "After almost 2,000 years," writes the Financial Times, "Iraqi Christians now openly contemplate extinction. Some Continue reading...
Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: al-Qaida, Barack Obama, Catholic, Christians, Egypt, George W. Bush, Iraq, Middle East, Muslim, Muslim Brotherhood, President, Revolution, Saddam Hussein, Syria, War
A Community Organizer Goes to War
Thursday - March 31, 2011 at 11:55 pm
By Patrick J. BuchananNow that Benghazi has been spared what we were assured would be a massacre by Moammar Gadhafi's army, why are the U.S. Air Force, Navy, CIA and Special Forces still attacking in Libya?If our objective was to spare the defenseless people of Benghazi from slaughter, why, mission accomplished, did we not stop bombing? Why are we plunging deeper in?Did Gadhafi attack Continue reading...
Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: Barack Obama, George H.W. Bush, Libya, Middle East, Moammar Gadhafi, NATO, Ronald Reagan, Syria, War
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