Who Commissioned Us to Remake the World?

Jan 272012

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, , Kyrgyzstan, Georgia and Lebanon. The project miscarried in Belarus.

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Our Innocents Abroad?

Jan 032012

By Patrick J. Buchanan

Friday’s lead stories in The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal dealt with what both viewed as a national affront and outrage.

Egyptian soldiers, said the Post, “stormed the offices” of three U.S. “-building organizations … in a dramatic escalation of a crackdown by the military-led government that could imperil its relations with the United States.”

The organizations: Freedom House, the International Republican Institute and the National Democratic Institute.

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The Roots of Voter Anger Go Back to 1954

Dec 022011

By Patrick J. Buchanan

Sixty-nine percent of voters nationwide are angry with the policies of the federal government.

To understand why, it’s important to remember that most voters believe tax cuts and government spending cuts are good for the economy. Collectively, voters have voted for politicians who promised spending cuts and tax cuts in just about every over the past four decades.

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The Equality Racket

Nov 112011

By Patrick J. Buchanan

Our mainstream media have discovered a new issue: inequality in America. The gap between the wealthiest 1 percent and the rest of the nation is wide and growing wider.

This, we are told, is intolerable. This is a deformation of American that must be corrected through remedial government action.

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It Can't Happen Here

Nov 082011

By Patrick J. Buchanan

Friday, thousands in Moscow, giving Nazi salutes and carrying placards declaring, “ for the Russians!” marched through the city shouting racial slurs against peoples from the Caucasus.

In Nigeria, Boko Haram, which is Hausa for “Western education is sacrilege,” massacred 63 people in a terror campaign to bring about sharia law. Seven churches were bombed.

Sunday, The New York Times reported that Uzbeks in Kyrgyzstan are suffering “horrific abuse” following last year’s pogrom.

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What Is It We Wish to Conserve?

Oct 252011

By Patrick J. Buchanan

A conservative’s task in society is “to preserve a particular people, living in a particular place during a particular time.”

Jack Hunter, in a review of this writer’s new book, “Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?” thus summarizes Russell Kirk’s view of the duty of the conservative to his country.

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The Democracy Worshipers

Sep 162011

By Patrick J. Buchanan

“Your people, sir, is … a great beast.”

So reputedly said in an argument with Thomas Jefferson. At the Constitutional Convention of 1787, Hamilton explained:

“Real liberty is not found in the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments. If we incline too much to democracy, we shall soon shoot into a monarchy, or some other form of dictatorship.”

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When Dictators Fall, Who Rises?

Apr 262011

By Patrick J. Buchanan

One month before the invasion of Iraq, Riah Abu el-Assal, a Palestinian and the Anglican bishop of Jerusalem at the time, warned Tony Blair, “You will be responsible for emptying Iraq, the homeland of Abraham, of Christians.”

The bishop proved a prophet. “After almost 2,000 years,” writes the Financial Times, “Iraqi Christians now openly contemplate extinction. Some of their prelates even counsel flight.”

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