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Iran: Anticipating a Second “War of Choice”

by Pat Buchanan December 27, 2011

Returning from Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta dropped some jolting news.
Asked by CBS’s Scott Pelley if Iran could have a nuclear weapon in 2012, Panetta replied: “It would probably be about a year before they could…

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The Second Period of Islamic Power

by Pat Buchanan December 23, 2011

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…

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Iraqi Mission Accomplished — But Was It Worth It?

by Pat Buchanan December 19, 2011

For the Army and Marines who lost 4,500 dead and more than 30,000 wounded, many of them amputees, the second-longest war in U.S. history is over. America is coming home from Iraq.
On May 1, 2003, on the carrier Abraham…

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British PM Vetoes New European Fiscal Union

by Pat Buchanan December 15, 2011

British Prime Minister David Cameron’s decision to veto Germany’s demand for a new European fiscal union will define his premiership.
More than that, Cameron has raised a banner for patriots everywhere fighting to retain their national independence.
With his no…

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Georgia’s NATO Membership & the GOP War Plan

by Pat Buchanan December 13, 2011

In August 2008, as the world’s leaders gathered in Beijing for the Olympic games, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, hot-headed and erratic, made his gamble for greatness.
It began with a stunning artillery barrage on Tskhinvali, capital of tiny South Ossetia,…

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The Secret History of Pearl Harbor

by Pat Buchanan December 7, 2011

On Dec. 8, 1941, Franklin Roosevelt took the rostrum before a joint session of Congress to ask for a declaration of war on Japan.
A day earlier, at dawn, carrier-based Japanese aircraft had launched a sneak attack devastating the U.S.…

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The “Equality” Racket

by Pat Buchanan December 6, 2011

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…

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Is a Republican Vote a Vote for War?

by Pat Buchanan December 1, 2011

Is a vote for the Republican Party in 2012 a vote for war?
Is a vote for Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich a vote for yet another unfunded war of choice, this time with a nation, Iran, three times as…

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