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Politics Honor Patrick J. Buchanan with the Presidential Medal of Freedom The TAC founder made the world we’re living in. Pat Buchanan speaks at a Christian Coalition Rally in 1996. (Brooks Kraft LLC/Sygma via Getty Images) The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the highest honor a civilian can receive, and over the years it has been awarded to a diverse group of recipients. In 2020, during the State of the Union Address, President Donald J. Trump awarded Rush Limbaugh the Medal of Freedom. Limbaugh, a leading conservative voice and defender of liberty, was worthy of the high honor. Now in retirement, Patrick J. Buchanan is another leading conservative voice and defender of liberty who is also worthy of such an honor. It was Buchanan’s traditional conservatism that paved the way for President Trump’s America First movement. During the 1990s and into the 2000s, Buchanan was a voice of one calling in the wilderness, warning the nation about unrestricted immigration, free-trade agreements that were decimating the middle class and outsourcing our manufacturing base, and the consequences of the neoconservative and liberal internationalism that resulted in endless wars. Buchanan also defended traditional values such as marriage and the life of the unborn, and he fought against the progressive attacks upon American history. As a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 1992 and in 1996, and as the Reform Party nominee in 2000, Buchanan also championed traditional conservative positions such as opposing affirmative action, reducing the size and scope of the federal government, placing the Constitution first, and protecting the sovereignty of the United States. Buchanan did not just campaign on an America First platform, but he also reminded conservatives about their intellectual heritage. For decades both the Republican Party and the conservative movement had embraced liberal internationalism characterized by free trade, open borders, and promoting democracy overseas. This liberal internationalism had more in common with President Woodrow Wilson and progressivism than it did with conservatism. Whether it was NAFTA, WTO, granting Most Favored Nation (MFN) status to China, among other free trade agreements, Buchanan warned that blindly embracing globalization would have consequences to both the economy and national sovereignty. Further, endless wars to spread democracy and exercises in nation building resulted in a grand failure of foreign policy. “How did America lose the world? Through an ignorance of history, an embrace of ideology, and an arrogance of power—hubris,” wrote Buchanan in Day of Reckoning: How Hubris, Ideology, and Greed are Tearing America Apart. Buchanan was also prophetic about the dangers of unlimited immigration both legal and illegal. During his campaign for the Republican nomination, he called for not only a secure border, but a border fence, long before “build the wall” became the rallying cry of the Trump campaign. Buchanan was part of a minority within the conservative movement and the Republican Party that opposed uncontrolled immigration. In a Republican Party and a conservative movement that increasingly viewed immigration and citizenship as a jobs program, Buchanan took the direct opposite position. “Uncontrolled immigration threatens to deconstruct the nation we grew up in and convert America into a conglomeration of peoples with almost nothing in common—not history, heroes, languages, culture, faith, or ancestors,” wrote Buchanan in The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization. Uncontrolled immigration not only represented a security threat, but it had economic consequences, and it impacted the cultural framework of the nation. Perhaps most important was Buchanan’s defense of Americanism and Western civilization. Buchanan, like Trump, defends the United States and its history. What made the United States exceptional was not only its history and ideals, but also the Christian foundation of the nation. “Is it not a people of a common ancestry, culture, and language, who worship the same God, revere the same heroes, cherish the same history, celebrate the same holidays…,” stated Buchanan in Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025? This is a philosophy that is  also expressed by Vice President-elect J.D. Vance. Buchanan’s conservatism appealed to Americans who increasingly believed that both political parties had forgotten them; many of these “Buchanan Brigade” members would become Trump supporters. “They don’t read Adam Smith or Edmund Burke, but they come from the same schoolyards and the same playgrounds and towns as we come from. They share our beliefs and convictions, our hopes, and our dreams. They are the conservatives of the heart,” stated Buchanan in describing these patriotic Americans. Through his political campaigns, television commentary, twice-weekly newspaper columns, and numerous books, which will stand the test of time, Buchanan was both prophetic and a movement conservative that influenced many. In a 2017 interview with POLITICO, Buchanan stated that his “ideas made it,” but “I didn’t.” When Trump selected Vance as his running mate, many free-market conservatives were disappointed, and others stated that the Republican Party was now the party of Pat Buchanan. Although trying to win the presidency, Buchanan was more of an intellectual. He helped remind conservatives of their heritage and their philosophy. The American Founders, Whigs like Henry Clay and Daniel Webster, and Republican Party leaders from Abraham Lincoln through Herbert Hoover, all embraced the conservative nationalism that Buchanan wrote about and defended. It was the conservatism of Presidents Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge that reflected Buchanan’s philosophy the most: a commitment to limited government, a protectionist trade policy, and a realist foreign policy. Buchanan is retired, but he paved the way for the America First movement, while defending traditional conservatism and fighting to preserve the history, principles, and values that have made the United States an exceptional nation. The post Honor Patrick J. Buchanan with the Presidential Medal of Freedom appeared first on The American Conservative.

Foreign Affairs Trump’s Opportunity in Lebanon The dealmaker-in-chief has a chance to make a new, stable Middle Eastern combination. Credit: image via Shutterstock As the United States’ President-elect Donald Trump gears up for his second term in office, there are indications that Lebanon may be a focal point of his Middle East policy. Trump has made more than one gesture to this effect, raising hopes that his return to the White House may end the suffering in the war-ravaged country. Prioritizing peace in Lebanon would serve American interests and be consistent with an America First foreign policy insofar as it could dramatically reduce tensions in the Middle East and especially with Iran. This would allow Trump 2.0 to focus on more pressing issues like competition with China. For such an endeavor to succeed, however, Trump would need to abandon Washington’s long-standing anti-Hezbollah Lebanon policy. Prior to his electoral victory, the president-elect signed a written pledge to end the war in Lebanon, where Israeli military operations have claimed the lives of almost 3,500 people since last October. News of the statement surfaced after Trump’s visit to a Lebanese restaurant in Michigan, home to America’s largest Lebanese community, which went on to vote overwhelmingly for the Republican candidate.   In another sign of how Lebanon may be given special attention in Trump 2.0, the president-elect granted an exclusive interview to the Lebanese MTV channel in the final weeks before the elections, promising that things would turn out well for the people of the country under his watch. Trump attaching a special importance to Lebanon would be consistent with his family-influenced foreign policy approach in the Middle East. His elder son-in-law Jared Kushner played an outsized role in the Abraham Accords during Trump 1.0, by which the U.S. successfully brokered the normalization of ties between Israel and several Arab states. Kushner belongs to an Orthodox Jewish family that has long-standing ties with Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu. His father, Charles Kushner, is also known for being a donor to pro-Israeli initiatives. Given Kushner’s influence in shaping Trump’s Middle East policy during his first term, it would not be all that surprising if a similar dynamic were to play out in the president-elect’s second term, only this time with his new son-in-law Michael Boulos, who has been married to Trump’s second daughter Tiffany since 2022. Boulos hails from a Lebanese Christian family that is said to have connections with prominent Lebanese political figures like Suleiman Frangieh, a close ally of Hezbollah and the Shiite movement’s preferred candidate for Lebanon’s presidency, which has been vacant for over two years. There are already signs that the Boulos family may be heavily involved in Trump 2.0 Middle East policy. Boulos’s father, Massad, worked as Trump’s campaign advisor to court the Arab-American vote; he has been rumored as a possible replacement for Amos Hochstein, the Biden administration’s point man for Lebanon. The elder Boulos has also recently held meetings with Lebanese cabinet ministers and lawmakers.   Securing a ceasefire in Lebanon could no doubt go a long way towards achieving wider regional stability. (Trump has reportedly greenlit a ceasefire proposal between Lebanon and Israel, although, according to Lebanese media, sticking points remain.) Despite its tiny size, Lebanon is known for reflecting the broader power dynamics of the Middle East. More importantly, an end to the war in Lebanon could be pivotal to reaching a new agreement with Iran, something Trump has openly declared he wishes to pursue. This, however, would require the abandonment of the anti-Hezbollah policy that has dominated the American approach towards Lebanon for decades, even if the war were to end. Events that took place in the aftermath of Israel’s assassination of Hezbollah’s former leader, Hassan Nasrallah, in late September speak to the importance Iran attaches to Lebanon and its special relationship with the Lebanese Shiite movement. Just days after Nasrallah’s death, Iran launched a large-scale missile attack on Israel, which was considerably heavier-handed than a previous attack it had carried out in April. This was followed by a rare public speech by the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in commemoration of Nasrallah.  Given how Hezbollah represents a vital national interest for Iran, a reduced focus on undermining the Lebanese Shiite movement could be an important confidence-building measure that may help Trump bring Tehran to the negotiating table to discuss a nuclear deal and possibly even a wider regional understanding. Pursuing such an approach is almost certain to have a better chance at success than the maximum-pressure campaign waged during Trump 1.0. Despite the severity of the sanctions applied in that campaign, Iran’s nuclear program continued to develop and Tehran proceeded to enhance its ties with the Eastern bloc led by China and Russia. The biggest challenge to such a scenario playing out is the special relationship between the United States and Israel. As is the case with Washington’s broader Middle East policy, it is this special relationship that has long shaped America’s strategy towards Lebanon. It is also the case, however, that this has often been to the detriment of American interests, and Lebanon is no exception. In fact, U.S. support for Israeli objectives in Lebanon has come at a particularly bloody cost, having been identified as the cause behind the Marine Barracks attacks in Beirut that killed 220 American servicemen.   Most importantly, the weakening of Hezbollah does not necessarily serve U.S. interests. With the shale revolution significantly reducing the importance of the Middle East as an oil supplier, the remaining core American interest in this region is preventing the establishment of terrorist safe havens that could be used to plot attacks on American assets and/or the homeland. Not only does Hezbollah not have a history of conducting such operations (the Marine barracks attacks happened before it existed as an organization, and the Marines were seen as active participants in the Lebanese war at the time), but it has actively fought against groups that constitute a real terrorist threat to the United States. In Syria, the Lebanese Shiite movement was instrumental in the degradation of Salafi-Jihadi groups like the Al Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front and ISIS. The Lebanese Shiite movement’s role in fighting these groups was fundamental in preventing them from establishing a foothold in Lebanon, one of the countries on which the Salafi-Jihadis had set their sights.  Given these dynamics, there exists a strong case for Trump to adjust American policy regarding Lebanon. Making such an adjustment would be consistent with the America First foreign policy the president-elect has advocated, as opposed to the “Israel First” policy which has been the dominant feature of Washington’s approach to the region for decades. Some of the choices for senior positions in the upcoming administration—like Marco Rubio for Secretary of State and Mike Waltz for National Advisor—do not bode well in this regard. Nevertheless, as observers have pointed out, it is likely that Trump and not his aides will be running the show this time. The post Trump’s Opportunity in Lebanon appeared first on The American Conservative.

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