by Patrick J. Buchanan - January 29, 1998 The drums are beating for another American war in the Persian Gulf. Republicans assure Bill Clinton of total backing if he launches air strikes against Iraq. Three U.S. carriers rendezvous in the Gulf in February. Madeleine Albright flies off to tell Europe: America will act alone if necessary. The head of the U.N. weapons inspection team warns that Continue reading...

by Patrick J. Buchanan - January 22, 1998 The saddest of commentaries on the Clinton presidency is that on the first day of his greatest political and personal crisis, no one really believed him -- not even his own loyalists. The White House staff was stunned and demoralized the instant the charge surfaced of a Clinton liaison with a 21-year-old intern, whom the president allegedly seduced Continue reading...

by Patrick J. Buchanan - January 19, 1998 How does the party justify raising money from right-to-life folks and then using their dollars to elect candidates who support third-trimester abortions? How do Republicans now answer the press taunt: "You denounce Clinton for his stand on partial-birth abortions, but you yourselves fund governors and senators who hold the identical position... In Continue reading...

by Patrick J. Buchanan - January 12, 1998 When the Americans, like the British before them, grow weary of their imperial duties and sail away, Iran will dominate the Persian Gulf. It is ordained. No nation in the region can match Iran's size, population or power. George Bush's war that smashed Iraq and the U.S.-led embargo blockade that have brought it to ruin destroyed Iran's rival. The only Continue reading...

by Patrick J. Buchanan - January 6, 1998 The opening lines of the Boy Scout oath run thus: "I promise to do my best / To do my duty to God and my country." In 1991, 9-year-old twins Michael and William Randall of Anaheim Hills, Calif., refused to take the oath, or to acknowledge any duty to God. They were atheists, the boys said. Fine, replied the mother of Cub Scout Den 4, Continue reading...

by Patrick J. Buchanan - January 2, 1998 While Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin is winning applause for shoveling $10 billion into South Korea to avert a default, it is clear neither he nor the IMF saw this crisis coming. Their soothing assurances have about them a ring of hollowness and trepidation... As 1997 ends, even William Jefferson Clinton's severest critics Continue reading...