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The Therapeutic Choice
Despite all the posturing and tough-talk, Kerry still sees the world in pre-9/11 terms, when terrorism was a "nuisance" and a matter of law enforcement, UN resolutions and a few cruise missiles—Michael Moore, MoveOn and Air America agree—but they are all wrong, for we are in a war for our society, and one that we did not start—because Kerry doesn't understand this basic truth, he will lose

National Review Online 10/15/04

Sizing Up Iraq
We're winning engagments on the ground, Iraqi terrorists are not winning widespread Iraqi support, political solutions are in sight, and we have a mechanism to ease out of Iraq—what else do we need to do in the Mideast?—the Kerry non-alternative

 National Review Online 10/8/04

Spread Democracy
The New York Times asks VDH for a question for Senator John Kerry on the night of the first debate

 The New York Times 9/30/04
A Futile Foreign Policy
Kerry, heir to Carter-Clintonism—does Kerry really want to undo what Bush has done?—how would the terrorists, Europeans, Iranians, North Koreans and Chinese size up John Kerry?—nuanced diplomats, multilateral protocols, and U.N. resolutions are no substitute for deterrence and F16s—Kerry, the mellifluous Siren		 National Review Magazine 9/19/04

See Ya, Iraq?: Leaving now would be a disaster
Appeasement: wrong—strategic withdrawal: wrong—Iraq is Vietnam analogy: wrong—Staying the course until victory: right—the terrible consequences of an early pullback

 National Review Online 9/17/04
Slaughter of the Innocents
by Honora Howell Chapman
Tragedy in Russia—King Herod—UNICEF—the Beslan of 413 B.C. 		Private Papers 9/16/04

A Short Reflection on Anti-Americanism, the Prejudice
by Joey Tartakovsky
World Popularity Contest 2004—the philosophical power of anti-Americanism—an Army of Angry Accusers—they have some explaining to do

 Private Papers 9/15/04

The Other Olympics: Why so little anti-Americanism?
What does Athens have to say about America hatred?—Greece's rough neighborhood—note to Iran: it's not Berlin 1936

 Private Papers 9/13/04
The Whole World is Watching
Violence, violence everywhere—journalists, pensioners, children, unspared—we confront fascism with an Islamic face—to whose birthing region brings disgrace—hearts and minds are all well and good—as long as its true evil is first understood
National Review Online
9/10/04
The Muslim Masses Know Otherwise
by Bruce Thornton
Islam's unpeaceful history—Islam's decline—the myth of the moderates—civil war ahead—Israel's fight is our fight—time to get tough
Private Papers
9/10/04
The Fruits of Appeasement
Carter's appeasement—complacency and self-delusion in the face of tyranny—our policy failure, 1945-1991—today's leftist sirens of appeasement
City Journal
Spring 2004
A Ray of Arab Candor
U.N.-appointed Arab scholars owning up to self-created pathologies—let this put spurious "postcolonial" studies to rest—the Middle East as Eastern Europe
City Journal
Winter 2004

Brace Yourself: The months ahead will be momentous.
The hysteria of our day—the dangers of oil—a nuclear Iran—Michael Moore—ailing Democrats
National Review Online
9/2/04

A Return to Childhood: The new immaturity
Picture this: Vice President Henry Wallace, January 1941, speaks to the American people on its failure to win the hearts and minds of European youth: "What have we Americans done wrong to lose millions of Spaniards, Italians, Germans, and Japanese, who turn their back on democracy and prefer fascism?"

 National Review Online 8/6/04
If the Dead Could Talk: They'd teach us a thing or two about war.
Have we forgotten the sacrifices of an earlier generation?—they cared not about why Hitler hated America, or what we had done to prove them—only that they need to be defeated		 National Review Online 7/30/04
What's wrong with Fahrenheit 9/11?: Who is manipulating whom?
by Joey Tartakovsky
The great purpose of Fahrenheit 9/11, revealed—a stunning incoherence—Moore's conscienceless insult to Iraq—what are "facts"?—why you should disapprove of this movie 		Private Papers 7/28/04
Hedging on Iraq: Which side will Americans choose to be on?
Dems on Iraq: Kucinich or Lieberman? Kerry or Kerry?—the gaping chasm between perception and reality—the relentess pessimism of the Left—don't listen to the pundits: everyone is confused 		National Review Online 7/23/04
History's Verdict: The summer of 1944 and 2004 National Review Online 7/16/04
Allies, Friends, Neutrals, or Enemies? Private Papers 7/10/04
Civilization vs. Trivia: Sometimes life's choices are simple. National Review Online 7/9/04
Another 9/11?: The awful response that we dare not speak about National Review Online 7/6/04
Fantasyland Private Papers 7/2/04
High Noon on June 30? The Oregonian 6/29/04
Year Three: Where do we stand in this disorienting war? National Review Online 6/25/04
Do We Really Need More Troops In Iraq? Commentary Magazine 6/23/04
Humpty-Dumpty Had a Great Fall: America should give up on the shattered Atlantic Alliance.
Appeared as "Let Europe Be Europe"		 National Review Online 6/18/04
The Look Back: Why are we split over the war since 9-11? Private Papers 6/17/04
Feeding the Minotaur: Our strange relationship with the terrorists continues. National Review Online 6/14/04
Our Look Back at Normandy: What our generation might have said a month later in July, 1944 Private Papers 6/7/04
The New Defeatism: Are we giving up, even as we're succeeding? National Review Online 6/4/04
Kill the Insurgents: Stop Talking The New Republic 6/2/04
The Global Stakes at Khobar The Australian 6/01/04
Wars New and Old
Book review by Victor Davis Hanson		 National Review Online 6/1/04
Our Reptilian Brains: When 'Just Win, Baby' sadly trumps everything else. National Review Online 5/28/04
Why the Watchdogs Need Watching? Private Papers 5/28/04
The Terrible Arithmetic: On Killing an American Private Papers 5/28/04
The Wages of Appeasement: How Jimmy Carter and academic multiculturalists helped bring us Sept. 11. Wall Street Journal, Opinion Journal Online 5/26/04
Season of Apologies: It’s time for reckless critics to own up. National Review Online 5/21/04
A Mixed Report: Grading the war. Private Papers 5/21/04
How To Lose This War Private Papers 5/15/04
American Cannibalism: We are doing to ourselves what the enemy could not. National Review Online 5/14/04
Our Weird Way of War: Our enemies know us only too well. National Review Online 5/7/04
The Wars For The West Private Papers 5/7/04
Abu Ghraib Wall Street Journal 5/3/04
What the President Might Say: It is about more than just Fallujah. National Review Online 4/30/04
Myth or Reality?: Will Iraq work? That's up to us. National Review Online 4/23/04
So Lucky To Have Them: American soldiers are as impressive abroad as we are embarrassing at home. Private Papers 4/18/04
Our Present Chaos: Inconsistency is the order of the day. National Review Online 4/16/04
Finish It Or Forget It: This is a war—not terrorism, insurgency, or uprising. Private Papers 4/11/04
Western Cannibalism: Eating each other while our enemies smile. National Review Online 4/8/04
The Mirror of Fallujah: No more passes and excuses for the Middle East Private Papers 4/4/04
Lovin' Europe by Leavin': It is past time for our 60-year-old European child to move out of the house and get a life. National Review Online 4/2/04
When Should We Stop Supporting Israel? Private Papers 3/28/04
We Are Finishing the War: Anatomy of our struggle against the Islamicists. National Review Online 3/26/04
Demonocracy: Beware of once-elected thugs. National Review Online 3/19/04
Blame Whom? Private Papers 3/14/04
Thicker Than Oil: Putting to rest the Left's Iraq deceptions. National Review Online 3/12/04
Do We Want to Go Back?: What to remember come November. National Review Online 3/5/04
How to beat the American military?
When you can' t face it in battle		 Private Papers 2/29/04
Words That Don't Matter: The new buzz vocabulary of anti-Americanism. National Review Online 2/27/04
The Coming of Nemesis: Hubris and the law of unintended consequences. National Review Online 2/20/04
Just Imagine: Trying to believe in the make-believe world of the present age. National Review Online 2/13/04
Weapons of Mass Hysteria: If anything, the war was about 100,000 corpses too late. National Review Online 2/6/04
The Mind of Our Enemies
Sorting out all the agendas in Iraq.		 National Review Online 1/30/04
Better or Worse?: Should we believe the gloom of the Democrats? National Review Online 1/23/04
Our Primordial World: Pride and Envy are what make this war go 'round. National Review Online 1/16/04
The Same Old Thing: Our Augean stables are 30 years old. National Review Online 1/9/04
Why the Muslims Misjudged Us City Journal Winter 2003
The Western Disease: The strange syndrome of our guilt and their shame. National Review Online 12/30/03
Stuck on Calypso’s Island: Dialoguing with the Europeans. National Review Online 12/19/03
Critical Mass: We are reaching a showdown in this global war. National Review Online 12/12/04
A Real War: Fighting the worst fascists since Hitler. National Review Online 12/5/03
Multilateral Mantras: The fantasies of the old world meet the realities of the new. National Review Online 11/26/03
Loyalty, How Quaint: The timeless importance of an old quality National Review 11/24/03
The Paradoxes of American Military Power: Strange new guidelines about the way we fight. National Review Online 11/17/03
The Truth Will Set Us Free: What this war is not about. National Review Online 110703
“Those Jews”: If only Israel and its supporters would disappear. National Review Online 10/31/03
The Event of the Age: Iraq is becoming the deciding issue of our time. National Review Online 10/24/03
The Vision Thing: Convincing Americans to stick with a crazy Middle East. National Review Online 10/17/03
Legends of the Fall: More myths about the current war. National Review Online 10/10/03
What’s It All About?: Playing high-stakes poker like never before. National Review Online 10/03/03
On the Right Side of History: The hard truth won't go away. National Review Online 9/26/03
These Are Historic Times: Is it to be Lincoln or Sisyphus? National Review Online 9/19/03
The Great Divide: Looking back on the fires of 9/11. National Review Online 9/11/03
Are We at War or Peace?: Judging the reconstruction in Iraq. National Review Online 9/05/03
America Must Go It Alone: We're not like the rest of the world--luckily for the world. Wall Street Journal, Opinion Journal Online 8/10/03
'Bomb Texas': The psychological roots of anti-Americanism. Wall Street Journal, Opinion Journal Online 1/13/03
Finish The War: And recognize how well it's already going. Wall Street Journal, Opinion Journal Online 9/17/02
A Royal Pain: With friends like the Saudis, who needs enemies? Wall Street Journal, Opinion Journal Online 7/9/02
History Isn't on the Palestinians' Side: Arafat's strategy is suicidal in more ways than one. Wall Street Journal, Opinion Journal Online 4/2/02
Why the Muslims Misjudged Us: They hate us because their culture is backward and corrupt. Wall Street Journal, Opinion Journal Online 2/25/02
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme: People seeking handouts use the war as an excuse. Wall Street Journal, Opinion Journal Online 2/10/02
What Made Them Do Their Duty? City Journal Fall 2001
Great Leaders Are Forged In War: All past criteria of merit fade when the shooting starts. Wall Street Journal, Opinion Journal Online 9/24/01