Who Is the Enemy?

by Victor Davis Hanson

NRO’s The Corner

I don’t think anyone knows quite what this administration’s anti-terrorism policy is. Last August, Obama’s counterterrorism chief, John Brennan, lambasted the Bush administration, citing “the inflammatory rhetoric, hyperbole and intellectual narrowness that has often characterized the debate over the president’s national security policies” and criticizing the conduct of counterterrorism during the eight years following 9/11. Continue reading “Who Is the Enemy?”

Obama as Greek Tragedy–Part One

by Victor Davis Hanson

PJ Media

The Self-centered Protagonist

The blueprint of a Sophoclean or even Euripidean tragedy is pretty straightforward. A confident, cocky tragic hero for about the first 600 lines of the play exhibits unconstrained exuberance as he takes on the world. Continue reading “Obama as Greek Tragedy–Part One”

Obama’s Tortured Rendezvous with Reality: Interview with VDH

by Jamie Glazov

FrontPage Magazine

FP: Victor Davis Hanson, welcome to Frontpage Interview.

First things first, let me ask you this. Continue reading “Obama’s Tortured Rendezvous with Reality: Interview with VDH”

Human IEDs

by Victor Davis Hanson

NRO’s The Corner

Learning from Abdul Mutallab

Coming on the heels of the killing spree by Maj. Nidal Hasan at Fort Hood, the latest terrorist “incident,” involving Abdul Mutallab on Northwest Flight 253, is yet another isolated but tell-tale sign that we must learn from: Continue reading “Human IEDs”

On the Horizon

by Victor Davis Hanson

PJ Media

Some Modest Obama Predictions

1) We will begin to hear, ever so insidiously, mention again of the “war on terror”; some quiet memo will go out to cool all the talk of ‘man-made disasters’ and ‘overseas contingency operations’. Continue reading “On the Horizon”

The Summer of 1683

by Victor Davis Hanson

First Things (October 2009)

A review of The Enemy at the Gate: Hapsburgs, Ottomans, and the Battle for Europe by Andrew Wheatcroft (Basic, 368 pp). Continue reading “The Summer of 1683”

A Fairer Verdict On Bush

A reassessment of the 43rd president has already begun.

by Victor Davis Hanson

Forbes Magazine

Critics are tallying the Bush administration’s pluses and minuses, and some consensus is emerging that in time George W. Bush, like Harry Truman, will be seen in a far more favorable light than his low poll ratings reflected. Continue reading “A Fairer Verdict On Bush”