Author: gipperb@aol.com Patrick J. Buchanan

When Russia’s Vladimir Putin demanded that the U.S. rule out Ukraine as a future member of the NATO a […]

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When NBC’s Lester Holt asked President Joe Biden what might prompt him to send U.S. troops to rescue […]

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Because America entered both world wars of the 20th century last, while all the other great powers bl […]

When the Union was fighting to preserve itself in the Civil War, the France of Napoleon III moved tro […]

Speaking in Conroe, Texas, last weekend, former President Donald Trump accused his successor of allow […]

Earlier by Patrick J. Buchanan: Where Does NATO Enlargement End? Is the territorial integrity of Ukra […]

In 2014, when Russian President Vladimir Putin responded to a U.S.-backed coup that ousted a pro-Russ […]

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If Israel, as is universally believed and has not been denied, was behind the assassination of Iran’s […]

Earlier, by Peter Brimelow: A Long Farewell To Donald Trump, Immigration Patriot. And Thanks. In the […]

Dismissing President Donald Trump’s claim that the 2020 election remains undecided, Joe Biden has beg […]

With the Pentagon’s announcement that U.S. forces in Afghanistan will be cut in half—to 2,500—by inauguration day, after 19 years, it appears the end to America’s longest war may be in sight. The Pentagon also announced a reduction of U.S. troop levels in Iraq to 2,500 by mid-January. In 2003, we invaded and occupied Iraq to remove a perceived threat from Saddam Hussein and to disarm that nation of weapons of mass destruction we discovered it did not have. No WMD were ever found, and the war George W. Bush launched to find and destroy them has been called the greatest strategic blunder in U.S. history. These two wars, Iraq and Afghanistan, cost us some 7,000 dead, 50,000 wounded and trillions of dollars. And as they preoccupied us for two decades, China rose to become a strategic, military and economic superpower to rival the United States. Iraq and Afghanistan were the longest wars in U.S. history, and the most costly of the Mideast wars we have fought there, but there were others. In 2011, we attacked Col. Moammar Gadhafi’s army in the early days of Libya’s civil war. We intervened on the side of the rebels in Syria’s civil war.