Vietnam

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 […]

Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Iraq, John McCain, NATO, Neocons, Taliban, United States, Vietnam, War

Bring Our Marines Home

Tuesday - February 2, 2010 at 2:11 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan A month after Germany surrendered in May 1945, America’s eyes turned to the Far East, where the bloodiest battle of the Pacific war was joined on the island of Okinawa.

Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: China, Empire, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, War

The American Way of Abandonment

Monday - November 2, 2009 at 11:53 pm

By Patrick J. Buchanan When America is about to throw an ally to the wolves, we follow an established ritual. We discover that the man we supported was never really morally fit to be a friend or partner of the United States.

Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: Afghanistan, al-Qaida, Barack Obama, China, CIA, Hamid Karzai, Henry Kissinger, Japan, John F. Kennedy, Osama Bin Laden, Pakistan, Vietnam, War

Obama at the Rubicon

Tuesday - September 8, 2009 at 11:50 pm

by Patrick J. Buchanan If the aphorism holds — the guerrilla wins if he does not lose — the Taliban are winning and America is losing the war in Afghanistan. Well into the eighth year of war, the Taliban are more numerous than ever, inflicting more casualties than ever, operating in more provinces than ever […]

Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: Afghanistan, al-Qaida, Barack Obama, Lyndon B. Johnson, NATO, Taliban, Vietnam, War

Of Generals and Victories

Tuesday - October 7, 2008 at 12:06 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan “(O)nce war is forced upon us, there is no other alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. “War’s very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. “In war there is no substitute for victory.” Familiar to every graduate of West Point, the words are from […]

Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, John McCain, Vietnam

Losing the Will to Fight

Saturday - October 7, 2006 at 5:24 pm

by Patrick J. Buchanan Five years have elapsed since the war on terror began on 9/11. Yet even before nearly 3,000 were killed that day, there had been attacks by Islamic radicals on the World Trade Center, Khobar Towers, our embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, and the USS Cole. U.S. dead in those attacks was […]