Richardcyoung.com

The Online Home of Author and Investor, Dick Young

  • Breaking News
    • Dick Young’s Research Key: Anecdotal Evidence Gathering
    • You’ve Read The Last Issue of Intelligence Report, Now What?
    • The Final Richard C. Young’s Intelligence Report
  • Home
  • The American Conservative
  • The Swiss Way
  • Investing
  • Cato Institute
  • Dick Young
  • Debbie Young
  • Why We’re Different
  • About Us
    • Contributors
    • Why We’re Different
  • Key West
  • Paris
  • Liberty & Freedom Map
  • Weapons Systems
  • Your Survival Guy
  • Your Health
  • Justin Logan

War Dog Drumming

June 18, 2014 By Richard C. Young

War-dogs-300x224John McCain is on the war path. McCain labels Iraq’s hostilities as an existential threat to America. Here Pat Buchanan lays out sound reasoning why McCain is wrong.

As the Islamic warriors of ISIS rolled down the road from Mosul, John McCain was an echo of French Premier Paul Reynaud, when word reached Paris that Rommel had broken through in the Ardennes:

“We are now facing an existential threat to the security of the United States of America,” said McCain.

But nothing that happens in Mesopotamia is going to threaten the existence of the United States. As for the terrorist threat from ISIS, for us it is neither greater nor less than it was a week ago.

The existential threat here is to Iraq. Its survival as one nation is now in question, with the possibility it could be torn apart in a civil and sectarian war. But this is preeminently Iraq’s problem, not ours.

And if Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, his 900,000-man army, and Shia militia cannot defend Baghdad from a few thousand Islamist warriors, America is under no obligation to do it for them.

Maliki told us to go home three years ago. We did. And before we plunge back into that misbegotten war, let us consider what the real threats are — to America.

Related video:

The following two tabs change content below.
  • Bio
  • Latest Posts

Richard C. Young

Richard C. Young is the editor of Young's World Money Forecast, and a contributing editor to both Richardcyoung.com and Youngresearch.com.

Latest posts by Richard C. Young (see all)

  • Senate Must Not Confirm Anti-Iran-Deal Pompeo - April 20, 2018
  • Cato’s Justin Logan—Iran Nuclear Deal an Historic Achievement - April 20, 2018
  • Iran’s Nuclear Bomb Prospects - April 20, 2018

Related Posts

Our Most Popular Posts

  • Meet a Long-Time Friend and Advisor: The Stissing, Mountain Man
  • Fix Income Disparity: Ship the Wealthy to Venezuela
  • What Happened in Syria?
  • Are Your 'All Natural' Supplements What They Claim to Be?
  • Survival States: The Best States for Survivalists
  • Syria Airstrike: Bombs Away Bolton and Never Trumper Haley
  • Make the Deep State more Accountable
  • Ben Sasse, Mark Zuckerberg on Hate Speech
  • Everyone Has Stopped Talking about Bolton. Now It Gets Dangerous.
  • The Poetic Outing of Sean Hannity Politically Motivated

RSS Youngresearch.com

  • Are Consumer Stocks Problems Fixable?
  • The Good News Continues for Dividend-Centric Investors
  • Can EU Use Free Trade Deal to Avoid Steel Tariffs?
  • Your Pre-Retirement Years: A Straightforward Way to Earn Over 9% with Vanguard Wellesley
  • Where’s the Value in Tech?
  • Details, Details. Amazon Unveils 100 Million Prime Members
  • Red Alert! $164 Trillion in Global Borrowing Exceeds Pre-Financial Crisis
  • Facebook: “A Giant Blood-Engorged Tick Hanging off Your Frontal Lobe”
  • Amazon Establishes Foothold in Big Box Retail with Best Buy Partnership
  • Meet a Long-Time Friend and Advisor: The Stissing, Mountain Man
Senate Must Not Confirm Anti-Iran-Deal Pompeo

Senate Must Not Confirm Anti-Iran-Deal Pompeo

One Standard for the Public, Another for the FBI?

One Standard for the Public, Another for the FBI?

O Canada: “Sports Bind Us Together in our Pain and Heartache”

O Canada: “Sports Bind Us Together in our Pain and Heartache”

Syria’s Four Fronts and a Perfect Storm of Chaos

Syria’s Four Fronts and a Perfect Storm of Chaos

How Would You Evacuate? Could You?

How Would You Evacuate? Could You?

Cato’s Justin Logan—Iran Nuclear Deal an Historic Achievement

Cato’s Justin Logan—Iran Nuclear Deal an Historic Achievement

Copyright © 2018 | Terms & Conditions | About Us | Dick Young | Archives