By Patrick J. Buchanan

U.S. Ambassador Michael McFaul, Obama’s man in Moscow, who just took up his post, has received a rude reception. And understandably so.

In 1992, McFaul was the representative in Russia of the National Democratic Institute, a U.S. government-funded agency whose mission is to promote abroad.

The NDI has been tied to color-coded or Orange revolutions such as those that dethroned regimes in Serbia, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Georgia and Lebanon. The project miscarried in Belarus.

By Patrick J. Buchanan

“The most successful alliance in history,” it was called at the end of the in which , for 40 years, deterred the Red Army from overrunning Berlin or crashing through West Germany to the Channel.

And when that was over, Sen. Richard Lugar famously said, “Either goes out of area or goes out of business.”

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