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

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

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

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

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