My blood ran cold when I heard the news, right before the new year, that the tiny republic of Montenegro will hold a referendum on the question of independence from Yugoslavia. The NATO-crats are not through with the Balkans, not by a long shot. Mad Madeleine Albright...
Fulani, Buchanan and the Smear Machine
The campaign to destroy Patrick J. Buchanan, politically and personally, continues unabated, and is now accelerating as the official presidential campaign season gets underway. The reason for the escalation is because, incredibly, his somewhat quixotic guerrilla...
Weimar Russia and the Chechen War
Many Western commentators have remarked on the similarity of the post-cold war international landscape to that of 1919, the latest being Norman Podhoretz, who writes in the December 1999 Commentary:". . . there are two things about which I do feel certain. The first...
IS IRAQ NEXT?
With the Kosovo war, the criminal mendacity of U.S. foreign policy seemed to have reached its limit. The lies, the venality, the puffed-up grandiosity of our preening leaders and their repulsive spokespersons – surely, you think, it can't get any worse that that....
Serbs Out . . . KLA In
Brit Secretary of State for Defense George Robertson summed up his country's war aims succinctly and, as it turned out, all-too-accurately: "Serbs out, NATO in, refugees back." Tens of thousands of Serbs are fleeing "liberated" Kosovo, as the KLA...
Allied Farce: A Wartime Diary
On the first anniversary of the start of the Kosovo war, I present below my first column – then called "Wartime Diary." It preserves, I think, the sense of outrage I felt at the time – and still feel – while at the same time giving the reader a sense of...