By Patrick J. Buchanan

Appearing alongside CIA Director David Petraeus before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence last week, James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, said of Iran:

“We don’t believe they’ve actually made the decision to go ahead with a nuclear weapon.”

Before the hearing, as James Fallows of The Atlantic reports, Clapper released his “Worldwide Threat Assessment.” It read, “We do not know … if Iran will eventually decide to build nuclear weapons.”

By Patrick J. Buchanan

On Sept. 21, 1976, as his car rounded Sheridan Circle on Embassy Row, former Chilean ambassador Orlando Letelier was assassinated by car bomb. Ronni Moffitt, a 25-year-old American women who worked with Letelier at the leftist Institute for Policy Studies, died with him.

Michael Townley, an ex- asset in the hire of Chile’s intelligence agency, confessed to using anti-Castro Cubans to murder Letelier, in what was regarded as an act of terrorism on U.S. soil.

By Patrick J. Buchanan

Is a vote for the Party in 2012 a vote for ?

Is a vote for Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich a vote for yet another unfunded of choice, this time with a nation, , three times as large and populous as Iraq?

Mitt says that if elected he will move carriers into the Persian Gulf and “prepare for .” Newt is even more hawkish. America should continue “taking out” ’s nuclear scientists — i.e., assassinating them — but military action will probably be needed.

By Patrick J. Buchanan

In 1918, the United States proved militarily decisive in the defeat of the Kaiser’s Germany and emerged as first power on earth.

World II, ending in 1945, produced two truly victorious nations, the Soviet Union of Joseph Stalin and the America of Harry Truman.

Out of the Cold that lasted from Truman to the disintegration of the Soviet Empire and breakup of the Soviet Union at the end of Ronald Reagan’s term came a lone victor: the last superpower, the United States.

By Patrick J. Buchanan

Actually, Joe set himself up. From the moment he set foot on Israeli soil, our vice president was in full pander mode.

First, he headed to Yad Vashem memorial, where he put on a yarmulke and declared “a central bolt in our existence.”

“For world Jewry,” Joe went on, presumably including 5 million Americans, “ is the heart. … is the light. … is the hope.”

By Patrick J. Buchanan

“This state visit is … a terrible mistake,” said Rep. Eliot Engel, chairman of the House Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere.

by Patrick J. Buchanan
July 31, 2009

Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, who is wired into the cabinet of “Bibi” Netanyahu, warns that if ’s nuclear program is not aborted by December, will strike to obliterate it.

Defense Secretary Gates’ mission to this week, says Bolton, to relay Obama’s red light, was listened to attentively, but will not be decisive.

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By Patrick J. Buchanan

“I have to admire the residents of Iroquois territory for assuming that they have a right to determine where Jews lives in Jerusalem.”

Thus did Israeli government press director Daniel Seamen caustically dismiss President Obama’s opposition to ’s right to “natural growth” of its settlements in Arab East Jerusalem and on the West Bank.

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