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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Obama’s Dilemma — and Ours

Friday - June 10, 2011 at 8:54 am

By Patrick J. BuchananSeventy-one years ago this spring, after the German army had broken through the French lines, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill flew to France to consult his embattled allies on how to stop the advance."Where is the strategic reserve?" Churchill urgently asked the French commander in chief, Gen. Maurice Gamelin, and then he repeated himself in French: "Ou est Continue reading...

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A Foolish and Unconstitutional War

Wednesday - March 23, 2011 at 12:48 pm

By Patrick J. Buchanan"The president does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation."So said constitutional scholar and Senator Barack Obama in December 2007 -- the same man who, this weekend, ordered U.S. air and missile strikes on Libya without any Continue reading...

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It’s Their War, Not Ours

Tuesday - March 8, 2011 at 12:51 am

By Patrick J. BuchananBefore the United States plunges into a third war in the Middle East, let us think this one through, as we did not the last two.What would be the purpose of establishing a no-fly zone over Libya? According to advocates, to keep Moammar Gadhafi from using his air force to attack civilians.But if Gadhafi uses tanks to crush the rebellion, as Nikita Khrushchev did in Continue reading...

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Katyn and ‘The Good War’

Tuesday - April 13, 2010 at 12:32 am

By Patrick J. BuchananThe decapitation of the Polish government last weekend, including President Lech Kaczynski and the military leadership, on that flight to Smolensk to commemorate the Katyn Massacre, brings to mind the terrible and tragic days and deeds of what many yet call the Good War. Continue reading...

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