By Patrick J. BuchananWe can thank Providence that the earthquake was not 150 miles closer to Tokyo, else Japan's dead might number in the millions.Prime Minister Naoto Kan calls it the worst crisis since World War II. Yet, horrendous as it is, it does not, thus far, compare with that. For the earthquake dead are not 1 percent of those who perished in World War II.Between 1942 and Continue reading...
After the Revolution
Friday - March 11, 2011 at 12:16 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan"Democracy ... arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects," said Aristotle.But if the Philosopher disliked the form of government that arose out of the fallacy of human equality, the Founding Fathers detested it."A democracy is nothing more than mob rule," said Thomas Jefferson, "where 51 percent of the people may Continue reading...
Robert Gates, Neo-Isolationist?
Thursday - March 3, 2011 at 11:56 pm
By Patrick J. Buchanan"(A)ny future defense secretary who advises the president to again send a big American land army into Asia or into the Middle East or Africa should 'have his head examined,' as Gen. MacArthur so delicately put it," Robert Gates has just told the cadets at West Point.America would be nuts, Gates is saying, to fight a new land war like the two he inherited.It Continue reading...
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