When Dictators Fall, Who Rises?

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...

Are We Allied to a Corpse?

By Patrick J. BuchananOf our Libyan intervention, one thing may be safely said, and another safely predicted.When he launched his strikes on the Libyan army and regime, Barack Obama did not think it through. And this nation is now likely to be drawn even deeper into that war.For Moammar Gadhafi's forces not only survived the U.S. air and missile strikes, after which we turned the air Continue reading...

Was Obama Stampeded Into War?

By Patrick J. Buchanan"NATO is moving very slowly, allowing Gadhafi forces to advance," said rebel leader Abdul Fattah Younis, as the Libyan army moved back to the outskirts of Ajdabiya, gateway city to Benghazi."NATO has become our problem."Younis is implying that if NATO does not stop Libyan soldiers from capturing Ajdabiya, the rebels may be defeated -- and NATO will be responsible Continue reading...

A Community Organizer Goes to War

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...

Obama’s War

By Patrick J. BuchananIn ordering air and naval strikes on a country that neither threatened nor attacked the United States, did President Obama commit an impeachable act?So it would seem. For the framers of the Constitution were precise. The power to declare war is entrusted solely to Congress.From King William's War to Queen Anne's War to King George's War to the Seven Years' War, Continue reading...