by Patrick J. Buchanan – April 18, 1999
THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC

In recent years, Ronald Reagan’s Grand Old Party has at times seemed divided and dispirited. And unless that party can redefine its vision, reclaim its heritage and rekindle its fighting spirit, it will forfeit its claim to lead America.

With the fall of the “evil empire” a decade ago, an era ended; yet the party seems frozen in place and time. Clinging to the old certitudes and lacking the imagination to devise a new foreign policy to fit the needs of a new era, the Republican establishment has locked arms with the old foreign policy elite. The result: a failed attempt to rally the Reagan coalition, without the fire and energy of a new Reaganite agenda.

by Patrick J. Buchanan – April 13, 1999
THE WASHINGTON POST

Three weeks into Bill Clinton’s Balkan adventure and America risks a debacle. The human rights crisis in Kosovo has exploded into a catastrophe. Slobodan Milosevic is being rallied around like some Serbian Churchill. Montenegro and Macedonia are destabilized; Russia is being swept by anti-American jingoism; and U.S. troops may have to go marching into the Big Muddy.

Such are the fruits of Utopian crusades for global democracy.

The great lesson of Vietnam was: Before you commit the army, commit the nation. Clinton and Madeleine Albright launched a war against Yugoslavia with the support of neither.

by Patrick J. Buchanan – April 5, 1999
Address to the Commonwealth Club
San Francisco, California

My subject today is U.S.-China relations on the eve of the visit of Mr. Zhu Rongji to the United States. In the decade that has elapsed since the last visit of a Chinese premier, much has transpired that is deeply troubling and, indeed, profoundly alarming.

Ten years ago, a frightened Chinese regime that had watched pro-Western demonstrators shake every Communist state in Europe decided it would not happen in China. Tanks were sent to disperse students in Tienanmen Square, for the crime of having demanded democratic reforms beneath a replica of the Statue of Liberty. We yet do not know how many perished in that massacre.