By Patrick J. BuchananNow that Benghazi has been spared what we were assured would be a massacre by Moammar Gadhafi's army, why are the U.S. Air Force, Navy, CIA and Special Forces still attacking in Libya?If our objective was to spare the defenseless people of Benghazi from slaughter, why, mission accomplished, did we not stop bombing? Why are we plunging deeper in?Did Gadhafi attack Continue reading...
A Community Organizer Goes to War
Thursday - March 31, 2011 at 11:55 pm
Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: Barack Obama, George H.W. Bush, Libya, Middle East, Moammar Gadhafi, NATO, Ronald Reagan, Syria, War
Obama’s War
Tuesday - March 29, 2011 at 12:46 am
By Patrick J. BuchananIn ordering air and naval strikes on a country that neither threatened nor attacked the United States, did President Obama commit an impeachable act?So it would seem. For the framers of the Constitution were precise. The power to declare war is entrusted solely to Congress.From King William's War to Queen Anne's War to King George's War to the Seven Years' War, Continue reading...
Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: al-Qaida, Barack Obama, George H.W. Bush, Iran, John F. Kennedy, Libya, Moammar Gadhafi, NATO, Ronald Reagan, Syria, War
How Killing Libyans Became a Moral Imperative
Friday - March 25, 2011 at 12:54 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan"Who would be free themselves must strike the blow."So wrote the poet Byron, who would himself die just days after landing in Greece to join the war for independence from the Turks.But in that time, Americans followed the dictum of Washington, Adams and Jefferson: Stay out of foreign wars.America "goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the Continue reading...
Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: al-Qaida, Barack Obama, George H.W. Bush, Hillary Clinton, Libya, Moammar Gadhafi, War
A Foolish and Unconstitutional War
Wednesday - March 23, 2011 at 12:48 pm
By Patrick J. Buchanan"The president does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation."So said constitutional scholar and Senator Barack Obama in December 2007 -- the same man who, this weekend, ordered U.S. air and missile strikes on Libya without any Continue reading...
Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: Abraham Lincoln, al-Qaida, Barack Obama, Iraq, Libya, Moammar Gadhafi, NATO, US Constitution, War, Winston Churchill
The Rising Irrelevance of Obama
Friday - March 18, 2011 at 1:50 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan"This will not stand!" declared George H.W. Bush.He was speaking of Saddam Hussein's invasion, occupation and annexation of the emirate of Kuwait as his "19th province."Seven months later, the Iraqi army was fleeing up the "Highway of Death" back into a country devastated by five weeks of U.S. bombing.When Bush spoke, the world sat up and listened.Consider Continue reading...
Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: Barack Obama, Benjamin Netanyahu, China, Foreign Policy, George H.W. Bush, Globalism, Hillary Clinton, Hosni Mubarak, Israel, Joe Biden, Moammar Gadhafi, Saddam Hussein, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia
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