By Patrick J. Buchanan "Whatever mistakes have been made in Iraq, the worst mistake would be to think that if we pulled out, the terrorists would leave us alone. They will not leave us alone. They will follow us. The safety of America depends on the outcome of the battle in the streets of Baghdad." President Bush, speaking on 9/11, had a point. Even some who believe the invasion of Iraq to Continue reading...
Diminishing Options: Defeat Possible in Iraq and Afghanistan
Friday - September 15, 2006 at 10:47 am
Clinton vs. Gore?
Tuesday - September 12, 2006 at 1:58 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan On Saturday on MSNBC, this writer volunteered that if Al Gore would enter the Democratic primaries, he could defeat Hillary Clinton and win the nomination. Hours later, there popped up on Drudge this headline: "Al Gore Says He Hasn't Ruled Out Second Run." "I haven't ruled out running for president again in the future, but I don't expect to," Gore told reporters in Continue reading...
America’s Ideologue in Chief
Saturday - September 9, 2006 at 2:00 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan "The war we fight today is more than a military conflict," said President Bush to the American Legion. "It is the decisive ideological struggle of the 21st century." But if the ideology of our enemy is "Islamofascism," what is the ideology of George W. Bush? According to James Montanye, writing in The Independent Review, it is "democratic fundamentalism." Montanye Continue reading...
Can the GOP Be Saved? Perhaps
Tuesday - September 5, 2006 at 11:28 am
Like the famous racehorse Silky Sullivan, Sen. Rick Santorum is known as a great closer. Yet, months ago, he had been virtually given up for dead by pundits in his race against Bob Casey, Jr., son of the popular, pro-life, former Democratic governor of Pennsylvania. One poll early this year had Santorum down 23 points, an almost insurmountable deficit. A Strategic Value poll had Santorum down 16 Continue reading...
Islamo-fascism?
Friday - September 1, 2006 at 1:22 am
Since the 1930s, "fascist" has been a term of hate and abuse used by the left against the right, as in the Harry Truman campaign. In 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. claimed to see in the Goldwater campaign "dangerous signs of Hitlerism." Twin the words "Reagan, fascism" in Google and 1,800,000 references pop up. Unsurprisingly, it is neoconservatives, whose roots are in the Trotskyist-social Continue reading...
The NAFTA Superhighway: Coming Soon
Tuesday - August 29, 2006 at 1:18 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan This is a "mind-boggling concept," exploded Lou Dobbs. It must cause Americans to think our political and academic elites have "gone utterly mad." What had detonated the mild-mannered CNN anchor? Robert Pastor, vice chair of the Council on Foreign Relations Task Force on North America, had just appeared before a panel of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations to Continue reading...
Will America Survive to 2050?
Friday - August 25, 2006 at 2:17 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan "In 376 a large band of Gothic refugees arrived at the Empire's Danube frontier, asking for asylum. In a complete break with established Roman policy, they were allowed in, unsubdued. They revolted, and within two years had defeated and killed the emperor Valens – the one who had received them – along with two-thirds of his army, at the battle of Hadrianople." So Continue reading...
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