By Patrick J. BuchananTen years ago today, U.S. air, sea and land forces attacked Iraq. And the great goals of Operation Iraqi Freedom?Destroy the chemical and biological weapons Saddam Hussein had amassed to use on us or transfer to al-Qaida for use against the U.S. homeland.Exact retribution for Saddam's complicity in 9/11 after we learned his agents had met secretly in Prague with Continue reading...
Return of the War Party?
Tuesday - November 15, 2011 at 9:41 am
By Patrick J. BuchananIs a vote for the Republican Party in 2012 a vote for war?Is a vote for Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich a vote for yet another unfunded war of choice, this time with a nation, Iran, three times as large and populous as Iraq?Mitt says that if elected he will move carriers into the Persian Gulf and "prepare for war." Newt is even more hawkish. America should continue Continue reading...
What 9/11 Wrought: The Bush Legacy
Friday - September 9, 2011 at 12:25 am
By Patrick J. BuchananIn Cairo in 1943, when the tide had turned in the war on Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, who had embraced Joseph Stalin as an ally and acceded to his every demand, had a premonition.Conversing with Harold Macmillan, Churchill blurted:"Cromwell was a great man, wasn't he?""Yes, sir, a very great man," Macmillan replied."Ah, but he made one terrible Continue reading...
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