by Patrick J. Buchanan – June 26, 2002

“When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions,” said Hamlet. If President Bush has time left over from defusing a war between India and Pakistan, and preparing a plan for Mideast peace, he best take a quick glance south. From Tijuana to Tierra del Fuego, democratic capitalism is in deepening peril.

Some 500 maquiladora plants in Mexico have moved to Asia, taking 250,000 of Mexico’s best jobs, in search of 25-cents-an-hour Chinese labor. The global race to the bottom is on.

by Patrick J. Buchanan – June 24, 2002

“You wish to give this evil animal a reservation that is called a Palestinian state of terror,” roared Effi Eitan, minister to Ariel Sharon. Eitan was viewing the carnage of a Jerusalem bus bombing that killed 19 – mostly school kids – the day another terrorist bomber blew six Israelis to pieces and wounded 30.

“How do we negotiate with animals like this?” say Israelis.

That anguished question, everywhere asked in Israel, is the triumph of Hamas. For Hamas does not want a negotiated peace, and the closer peace approaches, the more violent it becomes. Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Al Aksa Martyrs Brigade want Israel dead.

by Patrick J. Buchanan – June 18, 2002

In the old James Bond films, Sean Connery played Agent 007. The double-0 meant Bond was one of but a handful of British agents who were licensed to kill. So it would appear is George W. Bush.

According to Bob Woodward of the Washington Post, President Bush has directed the CIA to conduct a covert operation to oust Saddam Hussein from power, and to use all available means, including the Special Forces. Adds Woodward, “Such forces would be authorized to kill Hussein if they were acting in self-defense.”

by Patrick J. Buchanan – June 17, 2002

With the 30th anniversary of the Watergate break-in hard upon us, the calls are coming in. Would this writer like to join a panel to “discuss” the Watergate break-in?

Though few under 40 can remember what it was about, our Big Media never tire of re-telling their version of the story of Watergate.

Why? First, because with Nixon unknown to a new generation, they can recast the tale as a morality play in which liberals saved America.

by Patrick J. Buchanan – June 12, 2002

“J. Edgar Hoover is Back: FBI Wages Secret War Against U.S. Citizens.” So runs the alarmist headline over Monday’s column in The Washington Times by civil libertarian Nat Hentoff.

What agitates Hentoff is John Ashcroft’s decision to let the FBI “send its disguised agents into religious institutions, libraries and meetings of citizens critical of government policy – without a previous complaint, or reason to believe that a crime has been committed.”

by Patrick J. Buchanan – June 10, 2002

President Bush is engaged in feverish diplomacy to stop an India-Pakistan war. He is mulling over an “American Plan” to end the Israeli-Palestinian war. And he has just sent his secretary of defense to NATO to line up allies to launch an American-Iraqi war.

Am I the only one that sees a small contradiction here?

The president’s men say only a war on Iraq and Saddam’s end can remove the threat of terror against us. Sharon says only the destruction of Arafat can end the threat of terror against Israel. Vajpayee says only the destruction of terrorist camps on Pakistan’s side of the Line of Control can end the threat of terror against India.

by Patrick J. Buchanan – June 5, 2002

“Ideas Have Consequences” was written by the young conservative scholar Richard Weaver, after he had witnessed the carnage World War II had visited upon his civilization. And if we look about the borderlands of Islam – Chechnya, Kashmir, the West Bank – we see the consequences of ideas advanced by two Americans whose influence is hard to overstate.

by Patrick J. Buchanan – June 3, 2002

“As waves of immigration from the Islamic nations of North Africa and the Mideast, and black nations of sub-Sahara rise, crest and crash into Europe, the immigration issue will become more explosive.” So I wrote only months ago in “Death of the West,” as I made a prediction: “Major parties will seize the issue from the minor parties, or the minor parties will become the major ones.”