by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
Afghanistan is a messy war, but so far it has been conducted with a minimum loss of American life while achieving some important goals. Continue reading “Thoughts on the Hysteria About Afghanistan”
Author: victorhanson
Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in Residence in Classics and Military History at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, a professor of Classics Emeritus at California State University, Fresno, and a nationally syndicated columnist for Tribune Media Services. He is also the Wayne & Marcia Buske Distinguished Fellow in History, Hillsdale College, where he teaches each fall semester courses in military history and classical culture.
The Buck Passes Here
According to Obama’s chorus of whiners, nothing is ever his fault.
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Meet the Obama whiners. “They did it” is the new administration’s credo when things go wrong. Continue reading “The Buck Passes Here”
Change and Hope
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
The Olympic Fiasco
I think most Americans were rooting for Chicago. As I wrote on NRO’s corner, I know I was. Continue reading “Change and Hope”
A Troubling Policy on Iran
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
Chickens Roosting
Where to begin with the “surprise” announcement of a second, previously undisclosed “nuclear facility”? Some thoughts: Continue reading “A Troubling Policy on Iran”
The War in Afghanistan
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
Two-Front Wars — Theirs and Ours
Something is not quite right about the conventional wisdom about the Afghanistan war. Continue reading “The War in Afghanistan”
Three Dangerous Stooges
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Last week, three dictators — from Iran, Libya and Venezuela — delivered lunatic hate speeches at the General Assembly of the United Nations. Continue reading “Three Dangerous Stooges”
Being Frank
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
It Would Have Been Easier Just to Tell the Truth
Given the recent arrests of several jihadist plotters, we can be thankful that Obama did not, as once promised in various early manifestations, end renditions, wiretaps, intercepts, and the Patriot Act (“shoddy and dangerous”). Continue reading “Being Frank”
The Obsolescence of a Slur
Criticisms of Obama are increasingly met by cries of “Racist!” Are his critics racists?
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
The charge of racism has been leveled against critics of President Obama’s healthcare reform by everyone from New York Times columnists, racial activists, and Democratic legislators to senior statesmen like Jimmy Carter (“It’s a racist attitude”), Bill Clinton (“some . . . are racially prejudiced”), and Walter Mondale (“I don’t want to pick a person [and] say, ‘He’s a racist,’ but I do think the way they’re piling on Obama . . . I think I see an edge in them that’s a little bit different”). Continue reading “The Obsolescence of a Slur”
A PR Nightmare for the Obamas
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
One can understand an American president’s lobbying for an American city to obtain the Olympics, but the blitz by the Obamas proved a PR nightmare. Let us count the ways: Continue reading “A PR Nightmare for the Obamas”
Bitter Harvests to Come
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
Reflections on the Speech to Congress
If one were to sum up the Obama speech to the joint session of Congress, it is the same old, same old formula: “I am a uniquely post-American fresh start; the era of Bush and our dreadful past is over; and because this is our moment, you, the world, owe me attention and support for my redefining America more to your tastes.” Continue reading “Bitter Harvests to Come”