by Patrick J. Buchanan – April 30, 2003

Last week’s pre-emptive strike by ex-Speaker Newt Gingrich on the State Department and Colin Powell may appear purest madness. But there is method in Newt’s madness.

For in his attack on State, Newt – front man for the neoconservatives – fired a shot across the bow of the West Wing, i.e., you have blundered in backing off the threats against Syria, but do not believe you can pressure Israel, with impunity, into making concessions to the Palestinians.

Consider the site Newt chose to launch his attack.

by Patrick J. Buchanan – April 28, 2003

“If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to have consensual sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything.”

Thus did Sen. Rick Santorum express his opinion that the U.S. Supreme Court should not overturn the Texas anti-sodomy laws, under which homosexual activity is still criminal misconduct.

by Patrick J. Buchanan – April 23, 2003

“Take Up the White Man’s burden,” Britain’s poet of empire, Rudyard Kipling, admonished Teddy Roosevelt’s America in 1899. The United States had just triumphed in the Spanish-American War to liberate Cuba and, as war booty, had annexed the Philippine Islands.

We must “Christianize” them, President McKinley explained.

Defeating Spain had been as easy as crushing Iraq. But holding the Philippines would require three years of Vietnam-style fighting against the guerrillas of Aquinaldo, which cost tens of thousands of Filipino lives. And many more Americans died fighting the Filipinos to keep the islands than had died fighting Spain to take them.

by Patrick J. Buchanan – April 21, 2003

If you would see the model for the World Government that is to rule your grandchildren, look to Europe. For it is rising there.

At the Athens summit of the European Union, where 10 new members were brought into the fold, ex-President Giscard of France, who is drafting the EU constitution, endorsed the idea of a powerful president of Europe who would serve for a five-year term.

by Patrick J. Buchanan – April 16, 2003

No one knows how America’s occupation of Iraq will play out.

Optimists say this will be like Germany and Japan after World War II, which were converted into democratic allies for the duration of the Cold War. Pessimists point to Lebanon and Israel’s invasion of 1982.

Put me down among the pessimists. I think Brer Rabbit just hit the tar baby.

In 1982, after a terror attack maimed an Israeli diplomat in London, Ariel Sharon sent his army crashing into Lebanon to expel a PLO that Israel claimed was a mortal peril to its northern border.

by Patrick J. Buchanan – April 14, 2003

It was no cakewalk. But no quagmire either. It was the most awesome display of military power in modern times.

At the beginning of the war, Iraqi defenders far outnumbered the U.S. and British invasion force. Yet, from a rolling start, coalition forces took but three weeks and 100 dead to occupy the capital of a nation the size of France with an army of hundreds of thousands.

by Patrick J. Buchanan – April 9, 2003

Tony Blair has assured his countrymen the United States does not intend to attack Syria or Iran. Colin Powell has assured the Muslim world the United States does not intend to attack Syria or Iran.

But did the British prime minister or U.S. secretary of state clear their statements with Richard Perle? For the War Party has blood in its nostrils and is headed for Damascus.

by Patrick J. Buchanan – April 7, 2003

At this writing, there seem only two big questions left in the war on Iraq. Will Saddam’s regime in its death throes resort to chemical weapons? How long will it take, and how much blood will it cost, to take Baghdad?

But after Baghdad falls, what next? Where does America go from here? In 1945, the answer was: The Americans are going home.