By Patrick J. Buchanan

For the Army and Marines who lost 4,500 dead and more than 30,000 wounded, many of them amputees, the second-longest in U.S. history is over. America is coming home from .

On May 1, 2003, on the carrier Abraham Lincoln, the huge banner behind President proclaimed, “Mission Accomplished!”

That was eight years ago. And so, was the mission accomplished?

By Patrick J. Buchanan

In Cairo in 1943, when the tide had turned in the on Adolf Hitler, , who had embraced Joseph Stalin as an ally and acceded to his every demand, had a premonition.

Conversing with Harold Macmillan, Churchill blurted:

“Cromwell was a great man, wasn’t he?”

“Yes, sir, a very great man,” Macmillan replied.

By Patrick J. Buchanan

When President Obama announced that U.S. special forces had helicoptered into Pakistan, broken into a secret compound an hour from the capital and killed , celebrations broke out all across America.

The man who plotted the mass murder of 3,000 of us had at last received his just reward. College students ran to the White House to chant “USA! USA!”

By Patrick J. Buchanan

“And this shall be a sign unto you: You shall find the infant wrapped in swaddling clothes, and laid in a manger.

“And suddenly there was with the Angel a multitude of the heavenly army, praising God, and saying: Glory to God in the highest and on earth, peace to men of good will.”

Nov 162009

By Patrick J. Buchanan

Are we at — or not?

For if we are at , why is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed headed for trial in federal court in the Southern District of New York? Why is he entitled to a presumption of innocence and all of the constitutional protections of a U.S. citizen?

Is it possible we have done an injustice to this man by keeping him locked up all these years without trial? For that is what this trial implies — that he may not be guilty.

By Patrick J. Buchanan

If we had it to do over, would we send an army into to build a nation?

Would we invade ?

While these two wars have cost 5,200 dead, a trillion dollars and a divided America facing an endless , what have we won?

Sep 252009

By Patrick J. Buchanan

While America was consumed this summer with quarrels over town-hall radicals, “death panels”, the “public option” and racism’s role in the plunging polls of Barack, what happens to health care is not going to change the history of the world.

by Patrick J. Buchanan

Five years have elapsed since the began on . Yet even before nearly 3,000 were killed that day, there had been attacks by Islamic radicals on the World Trade Center, Khobar Towers, our embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, and the USS Cole.

U.S. dead in those attacks was fewer than 100. And while the losses were tragic, they may be put in perspective if we realize that 85,000 people have been murdered in the U.S.A. since —not one in a terror attack.

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