Is NATO Necessary Now?

By |2015-12-11T14:01:35-06:00December 3rd, 2015|Categories: Europe, Foreign Affairs, Middle East, Pat Buchanan, Russia, War|

Recently, MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” hosted a spirited discussion with Donald Trump on whether he was right in asserting that Muslims in New Jersey celebrated as the towers came down on 9/11. About Muslim celebrations in Berlin, however, there appears to be no doubt. In my chapter “Eurabia,” in State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion [...]

The Foreign Policy Wisdom of Vladimir Putin

By |2023-02-22T18:28:59-06:00October 21st, 2015|Categories: Foreign Affairs, Middle East, Nationalism, Russia, War|

“Do you realize now what you have done?” So Vladimir Putin in his U.N. address summarized his indictment of a U.S. foreign policy that has produced a series of disasters in the Middle East that we did not need the Russian leader to describe for us. Fourteen years after we invaded Afghanistan, Afghan troops are [...]

Empire & Paradox in Our Post-Modern Comedia Divina

By |2019-06-06T11:56:57-05:00June 25th, 2015|Categories: Communism, Foreign Affairs, Middle East, Politics, Russia, Stephen Masty|

Wordsworth sang* to Milton, “thou shouldst be living at this hour,” and the same goes for G. K. Chesterton, the connoisseur of paradox. Weighing nearly four-hundred pounds at the end, today he would float like a dirigible over modern foreign affairs; plucking choice paradoxes at every hand and drawing as many lessons from our globalised Divine [...]

The Obama Doctrine

By |2015-04-23T16:20:57-05:00April 23rd, 2015|Categories: Barack Obama, Foreign Affairs, Middle East, Politics|

At the Summit of the Americas where he met with Raul Castro, the 83-year-old younger brother of Fidel, President Obama provided an insight into where he is taking us, and why: “The United States will not be imprisoned by the past—we’re looking to the future. I’m not interested in having battles that frankly started before [...]

The GOP, Bob Corker, and a Nuclear Deal with Iran

By |2015-04-16T16:03:56-05:00April 16th, 2015|Categories: Congress, Foreign Affairs, Government, Middle East, Pat Buchanan, Republicans|

“Pat, sometimes it seems like our friends want me to go over the cliff with flags flying,” President Reagan once told me. Today, it is “Bibi” Netanyahu and the neocons howling “kill the deal” and “bomb Iran” who are shoving the Republican Party toward the cliff. The question, which may decide 2016, may be framed [...]

Does Iran Really Want a Bomb?

By |2016-07-06T15:26:19-05:00March 18th, 2015|Categories: Middle East, Pat Buchanan, War|

America, we have a problem. In the blood-soaked chaotic Middle East, with few exceptions like the Kurds, our friends either can’t or won’t fight. The Free Syrian Army folded. The U.S.-armed Hazm force in Syria has just collapsed after being routed by the al-Nusra Front. The Iraqi army we trained and equipped fled Mosul and [...]

The Roots of ISIS

By |2014-11-13T05:41:09-06:00November 12th, 2014|Categories: Islam, Middle East, Stephen Masty|

Some years back, a Florida preacher, who seemed to have a neck that was 17-inches long and a goitre the size of a musk-melon, looked like ten generations of first-cousin marriages and probably handled snakes in church. He earned much publicity by burning a Koran; but just to make the story less controversial, let us [...]

The New Silk Road: How the West Was Lost

By |2014-02-06T14:18:48-06:00September 27th, 2013|Categories: Middle East, Russia, Stephen Masty|

In late 2013, the Future Powers met quietly in Astana. Their decision tells us much about 21st Century geopolitics, the balance of power, and the role of decadence in the decline of nations and empires. The Chinese, Central Asians, Russians and Iranians are rebuilding the fabled Silk Road without the silk. In the short-run it [...]

Is America Ensnared in an Endless War?

By |2014-01-22T10:46:12-06:00April 30th, 2013|Categories: Constitution, Middle East, Pat Buchanan, Terrorism, War|

“When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal.” So said Richard Nixon in his interviews with David Frost. Nixon was talking about wiretaps and surreptitious entries to protect lives and safeguard national security in a violent and anarchic war decade. The Nixon haters pronounced themselves morally sickened. Fast forward to our [...]

America’s Role in a Darkening Age

By |2014-01-09T20:04:34-06:00March 18th, 2013|Categories: Foreign Affairs, Middle East, Pat Buchanan|

When, in the 1950s, Nikita Khrushchev said, “We will bury you,” and, “Your children will live under communism,” Eisenhower’s America scoffed. By 1980, however, the tide did indeed seem to be with the East. America had suffered a decade of defeats. Southeast Asia had fallen. The ayatollah had seized power in Iran. Moscow had occupied [...]

Involvement in the Middle East: Time to Come Home?

By |2014-01-09T20:06:14-06:00September 26th, 2012|Categories: Foreign Affairs, Islam, Middle East, Muslim, Pat Buchanan, War|

Is it not long past time to do a cost-benefit analysis of our involvement in the Middle and Near East? In this brief century alone, we have fought the two longest wars in our history there, put our full moral authority behind an “Arab Spring” that brought down allies in Tunisia, Egypt and Yemen, and [...]

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