by Patrick J. Buchanan - March 31, 2003 Eight days into the war, 27 Americans had died in combat, some from friendly fire. Yet, already, journalists were talking about America being caught in a quagmire like Vietnam. We pay a price for not teaching history to our children. In Vietnam, we averaged 150 dead a week for seven years. In World War II, we lost 200 men every day for four years. In Continue reading...
The Poisoning of American Politics
Monday - March 17, 2003 at 1:01 am
by Patrick J. Buchanan - March 17, 2003 "Moran Said Jews Are Pushing War," ran the headline on page one. "Apology denies Anti-Semitism" ran the subhead on the story. Even a glance at that Washington Post, and one knew Jim Moran, bad boy Irish congressman from Alexandria – who has had more than his share of brawls, personal and political – had stepped into it, big time. But while the Continue reading...
First and Last War of the Bush Doctrine?
Wednesday - March 12, 2003 at 1:00 am
by Patrick J. Buchanan - March 12, 2003 As that latter-day Wilsonian Bill Clinton launched his war on a Serbia that did not attack us, George W. Bush intends to launch a war on an Iraq that has never threatened or attacked the United States. Clinton bombed Serbia for 78 days for refusing his ultimatum to surrender Kosovo, cradle of that nation. But Bush is invading Iraq to validate a new Continue reading...
The Case For Torture
Monday - March 10, 2003 at 12:59 am
by Patrick J. Buchanan - March 10, 2003 Can torture – the infliction of intolerable, even excruciating, pain to extract information from war criminals – ever be justified? Civilized society has answered in the negative. No, never. And torture is everywhere outlawed. Regimes that resort to it deny it, lest they be judged barbarous. Routine torture marks the regime that uses it as Continue reading...
Why the French Behave As They Do
Wednesday - March 5, 2003 at 12:58 am
by Patrick J. Buchanan - March 5, 2003 Having rescued France in two world wars, Americans are puzzled. Why are they organizing the Security Council against us? Why are they sabotaging the president's plan to bring democracy to Iraq, as we restored democracy to France? Why are they doing this? What the French are up to, however, is not unreasonable, if one can see the world from the Continue reading...
After Baghdad Where Do We Go?
Monday - March 3, 2003 at 12:48 am
by Patrick J. Buchanan - March 3, 2003 Prophecy is difficult, especially with respect to the future, said Mark Twain. And after the president's speech to the annual dinner here of the American Enterprise Institute – Politburo of the War Party – the question remains unanswered: What course does the United States intend to pursue, after U.S. tanks have rolled into Baghdad? As for war Continue reading...
The Passing Away of Mother Russia
Wednesday - February 26, 2003 at 9:27 am
by Patrick J. Buchanan - February 26, 2003 In many Catholic colleges of yesterday, students had to take 24 course hours of philosophy as a condition of graduation. At the core of the philosophy curriculum was Natural Law, and at the heart of Natural Law was the idea that men, through reason, could come to know how to lead a moral life. Not only could one reason to the existence of God, one Continue reading...
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