By Patrick J. Buchanan

For the 30 years since “The McLaughlin Group” began to run on network television, the Christmas and New Year’s shows have been devoted to the conferring of annual awards.

The first award on the Christmas show is “Biggest Winner.”

This year, clearly, one of the world’s big winner was — Islam.

For this was the year when what apologist Hilaire Belloc predicted in 1938 would be the “second period of Islamic power” became manifest to all mankind.

By Patrick J. Buchanan

The fever sweeping the is now coursing through , Yemen, and Bahrain, where the U.S. Fifth Fleet is based.

In all four nations, state violence is being used to crush the rebels, and regime survival hangs on whether security forces and the army stand behind the government or stand aside.

A new is dawning. What will it look like?

By Patrick J. Buchanan

Among the biggest losers of the Egyptian uprising are, first, the Mubaraks, who are finished, and, next, the United States and .

Hosni Mubarak will be out by year’s end, if not the end of this month, or week. He will not run again and will not be succeeded by son Gamal, whom he had groomed and who has fled to London.

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 222009

by Patrick J. Buchanan

In August, the Georgian navy seized a Turkish tanker carrying fuel to , ’s former province whose declaration of independence a year ago is recognized by but not the West.

Jun 092009

By Patrick J. Buchanan

Despite his boldness, seems as fated to fail as were Woodrow Wilson and . And for the same reason: a belief in his own righteousness and moral superiority, and a belief that his ideals and his persona count mightily in the modern world.

Wilson declaimed about America’s fight to “make the world safe for ” when in harness with the British, French, Russian, Japanese and Italian empires, all slavering to feast on the carcasses of the Hohenzollern, Habsburg and Ottoman empires.

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