By Tom Piatak – VDARE.com

Kingsley Amis famously suggested that Robert Conquest should call a  revised edition of his pathbreaking account of Stalin’s purges, The Great Terror, issued after material from Soviet archives had substantiated all Conquest’s arguments, “I Told You So, You F***ing Fools.”

A similar sentiment is appropriate to any consideration of Pat Buchanan’s career on this November 2, his seventieth birthday.

Buchanan has been right on all the major issues facing America since the end of the Cold War. As the Bush era comes to an end and the Obama era seems about to begin, it can now be seen that the Conservative Establishment’s failure to heed Buchanan has brought us to disaster.

by Kyle Bristow

Today, November 2, is Pat Buchanan’s birthday, and I felt it necessary to write a brief essay to extol the contributions he has made to American conservatism, for very few people have contributed to conservative philosophy to such a degree as has he.

Buchanan has always defended tradition, Western culture, and true freedom, but most of his contributions to political discourse have been made in the latter part of his life.

As a senior adviser for President Ronald Reagan, Buchanan was involved with the combating of the communist ideology at the twilight of the Soviet Union’s nightmarish existence.