by Patrick J. Buchanan - September 30, 2002 As Americans debate the wisdom – or folly – of war on Iraq, someone had best look in on the global economy. For it has taken on a sickly pallor. Five years after the IMF bailouts of the 1990s, some of the rescued regimes are swooning again. And America appears in no condition to conduct new global bailout operations. When we rescued Mexico in Continue reading...

by Patrick J. Buchanan - September 25, 2002 Inherent in the Natural Law right of self-defense is the right to strike first if one's life is in peril. If a criminal demands your money at gunpoint, you have no moral obligation to inquire if he also intends to kill you before shooting him. People have an innate sense of this right. Americans thus rallied to the side of Bernie Goetz, the Continue reading...

by Patrick J. Buchanan - September 23, 2002 With Russia, China, France and Saudi Arabia shifting to back a U.S. invasion, Saddam played his ace of trumps. U.N. inspectors, he told Kofi Annan, can come back in and inspect whatever they wish. The White House was caught flat-footed. But the Russians seized on Saddam's offer as ending the need for new U.N. resolutions. The Arab League, which Continue reading...

by Patrick J. Buchanan - September 18, 2002 Whatever one may think of the wisdom of invading Iraq and opening a third front in the war on terror, President Bush's address to the United Nations was a tour de force. The president gave it to the Tower of Babel with the bark on, as "Cactus Jack" Garner used to say. With Kofi Annan seated behind him, Bush bluntly told the U.N. what it already Continue reading...

by Patrick J. Buchanan - September 16, 2002 By most opinion surveys, the majority that supports the president's resolve to invade Iraq has been shrinking. But were Saddam close to getting an atom bomb, four in five Americans would back a pre-emptive war. Thus, the administration and the Brits last week have trumpeted a report by the International Institute of Strategic Studies on Iraq's Continue reading...

by Patrick J. Buchanan - September 11, 2002 The fires had not yet gone out at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, a year ago, before the War Party had introduced its revised plans for American empire. What many saw as a horrific atrocity and tragedy, they saw instantly as an opportunity to achieve U.S. hegemony over an alienated Islamic world. President Bush initially directed Continue reading...

BY Patrick J. Buchanan - September 9, 2002 The World Trade Organization has just given Europe the right to hit the United States with $4 billion in tariff sanctions – to punish us for giving tax breaks to U.S. exporters like Boeing, Microsoft and GE. Under WTO rules, we are not permitted to retaliate. We must stand and take the EU sucker punch, however hard it wants to hit. Perhaps Continue reading...