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 America’s righteous wrath and military power at al-Qaida. But in his “axis-of-evil” address, he signed on to the War Party’s agenda.