By Patrick J. Buchanan - December 14, 2001As every schoolchild used to know, the Trojan Horse was the scheme of the "wily Ulysses," one of the Greek warriors besieging Troy. For a decade, the Greeks had failed to capture the great city. In defeat and resignation, they adopted Ulysses' plan.They would build a great wooden horse and leave it outside the city walls, ostensibly as a tribute Continue reading...
Why Did Japan Attack Us?
Tuesday - December 11, 2001 at 12:29 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan - December 11, 2001Of all the days that will "live in infamy" in American history, two stand out: Sept. 11, 2001, and Dec. 7, 1941.But why did Japan, with a 10th of our industrial power, launch a sneak attack on the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor, an act of state terror that must ignite a war to the death it could not win? Were they insane? No, the Japanese were Continue reading...
Coming Clash of Civilizations?
Friday - December 7, 2001 at 12:27 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan - December 7, 2001With the ouster of the Taliban and eradication of the al-Qaida in Afghanistan, Islamic extremism has sustained a crushing defeat. But what continues to unsettle Americans is that film of Arab and Islamic people, wildly cheering the barbaric atrocities of Sept. 11.Is a war of civilizations coming?Clearly, not a few in the Islamic world and the Continue reading...
Israel’s Remaining Options… And Ours
Tuesday - December 4, 2001 at 12:26 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan - December 4, 2001Whether the slaughter of 26 Israelis was a reprisal for Israel's assassination of a Hamas leader or an attempt to kill President Bush's peace initiative, it has succeeded.With Israelis justifiably enraged, peace negotiations are off the table. And given the revulsion felt by Americans at what those suicide bombers did, Bush is not going to be Continue reading...
Military Tribunals – A Wartime Necessity
Friday - November 30, 2001 at 12:24 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan - November 30, 2001When Leon Czolgosz shot President William McKinley in 1901, he was tried before a civilian court, as was Giuseppe Zangara, the would-be assassin of President-elect Franklin Roosevelt in 1933.When John Hinckley Jr. shot President Reagan in 1981, he, too, was tried before a civilian court. But those who plotted the murder of Lincoln were tried by a Continue reading...
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