By Patrick J. Buchanan For Americans of the Greatest Generation that fought World War II and of the Silent Generation that came of age in the 1950s, the great moral and ideological cause was the Cold War. It gave purpose and clarity to our politics and foreign policy, and our lives. From the fall of Berlin in 1945 to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, that Cold War was waged by two Continue reading...
America’s Last Crusade
Tuesday - September 25, 2012 at 4:57 am
Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: Adolf Hitler, Arab Spring, Cold War, Debt, Interventionism, Islam, New World Order, Republican Party, Soviet Union, Syria, Taliban, United States, War, World War II
A Decade of War—for What?
Thursday - May 3, 2012 at 11:54 pm
By Patrick J. Buchanan "My fellow Americans, we have traveled through more than a decade under the dark cloud of war," said Barack Obama from Bagram Air Base. "Here in the predawn darkness, we can see the light of a new day on the horizon. The Iraq War is over. The number of troops in harm's way has been cut in half, and more will be coming home. ... The time of war began in Afghanistan, and Continue reading...
Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Hamid Karzai, Iraq, Nationalism, Taliban, Vietnam, War
For What, All These Wars?
Tuesday - February 28, 2012 at 1:10 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan "I wish to express my deep regret for the reported incident. ... I extend to you and the Afghan people my sincere apologies." As President Obama sent this letter of apology to Hamid Karzai for the burning by U.S. troops of Qurans that were used to smuggle notes between Afghan prisoners, two U.S. soldiers were murdered in reprisal. Saturday, a U.S. colonel and a Continue reading...
Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: Afghanistan, al-Qaida, Barack Obama, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Muslim, New World Order, Sanctions, Taliban, War
Is Obama Only Postponing the Inevitable?
Friday - June 24, 2011 at 1:15 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan In deciding to pull all of the 30,000 troops from the surge out of Afghanistan, six weeks before Election Day 2012, but only 10,000 by year's end, President Obama has satisfied neither the generals nor the doves. He has, however, well served his political interests. A larger drawdown would have risked the gains made in Kandahar and Helmand and invited a revolt of Continue reading...
Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Iraq, John McCain, NATO, Neocons, Taliban, United States, Vietnam, War
What Price Afghanistan?
Thursday - June 17, 2010 at 11:25 pm
By Patrick J. Buchanan "The narrative ... has been too negative." So says Defense Secretary Robert Gates of political and press commentary about the war in Afghanistan. It reminds him of the pessimism of June 2007, before the Iraqi surge began to succeed, said Gates. But the narrative is coming now not just from critics of the war but stalwart defenders. John McCain says the war effort Continue reading...
Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: Afghanistan, al-Qaida, Barack Obama, Taliban
Of Christmas, War and Peace
Saturday - December 26, 2009 at 10:31 pm
By Patrick J. Buchanan "And this shall be a sign unto you: You shall find the infant wrapped in swaddling clothes, and laid in a manger. "And suddenly there was with the Angel a multitude of the heavenly army, praising God, and saying: Glory to God in the highest and on earth, peace to men of good will." Continue reading...
Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: 9/11, Afghanistan, al-Qaida, Barack Obama, Christianity, Pakistan, Taliban, War
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...
Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: 9/11, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, China, George Bush, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Osama Bin Laden, Pakistan, Saddam Hussein, Saudi Arabia, State Department, Taliban, Turkey, War
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