by Patrick J. Buchanan – October 30, 1995

The Washington Post

Little of late has done more to persuade me that economic nationalism is gaining converts than the sudden yawping of George Will.

In his Oct. 15 op-ed column “Statist Republican,” Will reads me out of the company of “conservatives and other friends of freedom” for allegedly having embraced FDR’s “statist liberalism” and “bossy, knowing, favor-dispensing government.” He writes:

“Buchananism promises know-it-all government using tariffs to erase the trade deficit with Japan, because government knows best what trade balances should be…. Buchananism is a timid nationalism, worried about competition with a Mexican economy 5 percent the size of America’s.

by Patrick J. Buchanan – October 22, 1005

USA Today

The American people do not want their young people dying on Bosnia’s bloody ground…

President Clinton’s rash decision two years ago to contribute 20,000 U.S. troops to any NATO peacekeeping force in Bosnia may prove the undoing of his presidency. Congress should intervene to rescue him, and us, from the consequences of his folly.
There is no vital U.S. interest in whose flag flies over Sarajevo or Banja Luka or in who prevails in that civil war. Before 1992, Bosnia did not even exist. No U.S. lives are at risk there, and the American people manifestly do not want their sons sent onto that dark and bloody ground.