by Patrick J. Buchanan – May 28, 1999

Outwitted and defied by a crafty and ruthless Balkan dictator, NATO is now smashing a tiny country to retrieve its lost credibility, and restore a status quo ante that existed before it began this war.

The great issue now dividing the warring parties — Slobodan Milosevic wants UN peace keepers in Kosovo; NATO insists that the “international security force” contain its own troops as well.

Does having our way on this triviality justify an invasion by 100,000 American ground troops? Only wounded pride says yes.

by Patrick J. Buchanan – May 14, 1999
SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS

Whether Wen Ho Lee should have kept his top-secret clearance at Los Alamos years after being fingered as a suspected spy misses the point. It is not Lee; it is this White House that has become an unacceptable national security risk for the United States.

Not even during the Red Decade and World War II, when Josef Stalin’s spies and traitors looted the Roosevelt administration at will, were U.S. security secrets under less competent stewardship.

by Patrick J. Buchanan – May 8, 1999
COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS
Citadel, South Carolina

We must restore this nation’s military power… America must retrench and America must rearm.

General Grinalds, distinguished guests, and friends of the Citadel. It is truly an honor to address this last graduating class of the 20th century — and a truly unique class it is, of an institution whose name is synonymous with patriotism, courage, and a code of honor.

I must tell you, I was profoundly moved by yesterday’s parade, and the Scottish bagpipes playing “Auld Lang Zyne” to the Class of ‘99. I was moved, in part, because we Buchanans are of Scotch ancestry.

by Patrick J. Buchanan – May 3, 1999
Letter to the Editor – THE BOSTON GLOBE

In his April 22 news story, Michael Kranish suggests that I am saying one thing about taxes in New Hampshire and another in Texas (”Candidate’s stances vary with audience,” Page A1).
Not true. For a decade I have argued for tariffs on imports from China and Third World countries to cut out of America’s colon a huge, metastisizing cancer, as measured by a merchandise trade deficit that just crossed the $300 billion mark. Invariably I have said that “every dime raised by those tariffs” would be used to slash taxes on US producers, workers, and investors.