by Patrick J. Buchanan The Brits are going home. Forty thousand marched in beside the Americans. Only 7,100 remain; 1,600 will be heading home by Easter. By August, the Danish force of 470 is to be withdrawn, as is the tiny Lithuanian unit. South Korea has 2,200 troops in the …
by Patrick J. Buchanan – February 20, 2007 Both houses of Congress have now gone on record opposing Bush’s dispatch of 21,500 more troops to Iraq, yet neither house is willing to end U.S. involvement by cutting off funding for the war. Transparently, this is not a strategy for victory. …
by Patrick J. Buchanan – February 14, 2007 Saturday afternoon, writing in the basement, I took a break to surf the Internet. A headline caught me up short. “Hank Bauer dies.” The name means nothing to Americans under 60. But to a grade-schooler in the 1940s and 1950s, who looked …
by Patrick J. Buchanan – February 13, 2007 “A soft answer turneth away wrath,” teaches Proverbs 1:15. Our new secretary of defense, Roberts Gates, seems familiar with the verse, for his handling of Saturday’s wintry blast from Vladimir Putin at the Munich security conference was masterful. “As an old Cold …
by Patrick J. Buchanan – February 9, 2007 In aborting Iran’s nuclear program, “all options are on the table.” Some version of this threat against Iran has lately been made by John McCain, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards and Mitt Romney. Yet, if an attack on Iran is among “options … …
by Patrick J. Buchanan – February 6, 2007 Last week, Joe Biden walked into a Delaware diner, ordered a bowl of tomato soup and blew himself up. Too bad. We need Joe. In an interview with the New York Observer, lasting about as long as the soup, Biden, with raw …
by Patrick J. Buchanan – January 30, 2007 When Congress finally decides on just the right language for its “non-binding resolution” deploring Bush’s leadership in this war, it might consider a resolution to keep us out of the next one. For America is on a collision course with an Iran …
by Patrick J. Buchanan – January 25, 2007 Churchillian it was not. Yet the State of the Union seemed a success if Bush’s purpose was to buy time from Congress to wait and see if his surge of U.S. forces into Iraq might yet succeed. But when Bush started to …
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