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By Patrick J. BuchananIran is conducting a proxy war against the United States in Iraq, declared Ambassador Ryan Crocker last week.How? Gen. David Petraeus explained. The Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and Hezbollah are arming, training and directing the Shia militia fighting U.S. and Iraqi forces in Basra and firing rockets into the Green Zone. Said Petraeus, the Quds Force Continue reading...

By Patrick J. BuchananIt was said behind closed doors to the chablis-and-brie set of San Francisco, in response to a question as to why he was not doing better in that benighted and barbarous land they call Pennsylvania.Like Dr. Schweitzer, home from Africa to address the Royal Society on the customs of the upper Zambezi, Barack described Pennsylvanians in their native habitats of Atloona, Continue reading...

By Patrick J. BuchananThe neocons may yet get their war on Iran.Ever since President Nouri al-Maliki ordered the attacks in Basra on the Mahdi Army, Gen. David Petraeus has been laying the predicate for U.S. air strikes on Iran and a wider war in the Middle East.Iran, Petraeus told the Senate Armed Services Committee, has "fueled the recent violence in a particularly damaging way Continue reading...

By Patrick J. BuchananHaving cheerfully confessed he knows little about economics, John McCain is advancing himself as a foreign-policy president, a "realistic idealist," he told the World Affairs Council of Los Angeles.But judging from the content of his speech, McCain is no more a realist than he is a reflective man.Speaking of our five-year war in Iraq, McCain declares, "It would be Continue reading...

By Patrick J. Buchanan"Yes, it was a good war," writes Richard Cohen in his column challenging the thesis of pacifist Nicholson Baker in his new book, "Human Smoke," that World War II produced more evil than good.Baker's compelling work, which uses press clips and quotes of Axis and Allied leaders as they plunged into the great cataclysm, is a virtual diary of the days leading up to World Continue reading...