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Buchanan honors Charles Lindbergh as a heroic voice of isolationism and outrageously argues that the West instigated war with the Nazi regime.
The only "political" writing or editing I did around the time of that Clinton contribution was the Paula Jones piece by Stuart Taylor in the American Lawyer , which I instigated and edited and proudly published--and which, as you know, made the case against the president.
Tanenhaus accuses Chambers of having inadvertently instigated McCarthyism, and "shows us Chambers' paranoia, his introversion, his sententiousness" (Stephen Koch, the Wall Street Journal ). (Also, see Slate's mildly critical review by Ann Douglas.)
To counter Protestantism the Catholic Spanish instigated the vicious and cruel force of Inquisition.
Between 1992 and 1995, he looked into charges that Bush administration officials instigated an improper search of Bill Clinton's passport files during the 1992 campaign.