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What a spectacle America at war presents to the world. A former president, red-faced, bawls his rage at Fox News' Chris Wallace, who had asked why he had not shut down bin Laden and Co. in the seven years he had to do it. The president of the United States declaims to a partisan audience in Alabama, "The Party of FDR and Harry Truman has become the party of cut and run." Is this how the great republic fights and wins its wars? America has taken on the aspect of France's Fourth Republic after the fall of Dien Bien Phu...

The Bush administration's practice of shelving sound research and discarding science that doesn't suit its political goals has been well-documented. Now it seems that Bush's people have taken this approach to the debate over overseas outsourcing of white-collar jobs to low-cost countries. At issue is a Commerce Department report commissioned by Congress. The $330,000 report was supposed to be released before last year's presidential election, but wasn't.

''We must recognize what a large and growing number of Iraqis now believe,'' said Sen. Ted Kennedy last week, that ``the war in Iraq has become a war against the American occupation.''Even with the heroic and heartening election turnout, Kennedy is not entirely wrong. The insurgency has always been a war against the U.S. occupation and those Iraqis who cooperate with us. But the paradox that Kennedy fails to address is this: While the U.S. invasion and occupation precipitated the insurgency, it has grown to where only the U.S. military keeps it from seizing power. Should we withdraw now, there...

If President Bush fails in his re-election bid, the enduring image of his campaign will be the scowls on his face while Democratic nominee John Kerry answered questions during the debate at the University of Miami last month, according to one of Bush's opponents in 2000. "It was the single most disastrous performance of any president at the debate level," Patrick J. Buchanan, the 2000 Reform Party presidential candidate, said Tuesday night at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. "He had the chance to put it away." Buchanan spoke at Fisher Auditorium for the college's "Ideas and Issues" lecture series, which is...

The useful idiots of Osama bin Laden Posted: September 22, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Patrick J. Buchanan © 2004 Creators Syndicate, Inc. Of all Ronald Reagan's achievements, among the greatest was that this president who began his term declaring the Soviet Union an "evil empire" was, by the end of his tenure, strolling through Red Square with Mikhail Gorbachev to the cheers of the Russian people. That the Cold War ended without our tearing our nations to pieces, as Britain and Germany did, was a triumph, especially considering the awesome power of our weaponry. And since the Cold War...

Israel represents the synthesis of Pat Buchanan’s paranoid delusions -- rampant interventionism, neo-conservatives (his euphemism for Jews) in charge of the Bush’s foreign policy, American empire and a war on terrorism that can’t be won. Thus, in his new book – "Where The Right Went Wrong: How Neoconservatives Subverted the Reagan Revolution and Hijacked the Bush Presidency” -- all roads lead to Jerusalem. In Buchanan’s fantasy world, were it not for America’s outrageously pro-Israel foreign policy, Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar would be sending us anonymous love letters, the World Trade Center would still be standing, and the Moslem...

Patrick J. Buchanan is not done causing trouble for the GOP, a party he loves but which he believes has abandoned many of the core principles of conservatism. Just in time to cause a stir at next week's Republican National Convention, the Trib's regular Wednesday and Saturday columnist, TV pundit, editor of The American Conservative magazine, adviser to three presidents and thrice-defeated presidential candidate has debuted his sixth book, "Where the Right Went Wrong: How Neoconservatives Subverted the Reagan Revolution and Hijacked the Bush Presidency." Along with strong criticism of President Bush's immigration, trade and social spending policies, the book...