by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
An Obamaplosion
I get loads of quasi-hate mail about questioning Obama’s candidacy and governance. But I am worried, not about Obama, or the politics of governance, but about the nation itself. Continue reading “Hope He Can Change”
by Bruce S. Thornton
FrontPageMagazine.com
One of the most potent weapons in the jihadist arsenal is the failure of nerve that has afflicted the West for the last forty years. Continue reading “Suicidal Appeasement”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
All of you readers have had this odd experience. Just remember a bit. Continue reading “It Isn’t Easy Being a Saint”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Instead of Scott McClellan, who was inept and disingenuous as White House spokesman, we now get Robert Gibbs, a nicer sort — who is likewise inept and disingenuous. Continue reading “President Hamlet: It’s ‘to Be or Not to Be’ Time for Obama”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Last week the United States got lucky again and took out several suspected terrorists by Predator drone attacks over Pakistan. Anti-war critics prior to Jan. 20 used to decry “collateral damage” from such controversial strikes. Continue reading “Time to Beam Down to Earth”
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
The problem with Obama’s Al Arabiya interview (which I wrote about at length elsewhere): Continue reading “The Obama Interview”
by Victor Davis Hanson
World Affairs
Most Americans in 2003 thought that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were complementary theaters in the wider war on radical Islamic terrorism and the authoritarian Middle East regimes that aided and abetted it. Continue reading “Phony War: Afghanistan and the Democrats”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
President Barack Obama is being praised for choosing an Arabic TV network for his first formal television interview: the Dubai-based, Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya news channel. I think we can all appreciate the thinking behind such bold outreach, given that the media at home has chortled to the world that our new guy’s unusual background, in sort of Zen-fashion, has befuddled the radical Islamic movement. Continue reading “Dancing Around Landmines: The Obama Al-Arabiya Interview”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
For nearly three months since the election, we have been warned by President Obama, his staff and the media not to burden him with unreal expectations that no mere mortal could meet. Continue reading “Unreal Expectations?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Euphemism comes from the Greek word euphemia, which means “using the good word”—usually in place of the accurate bad one. Recently we’ve become experts at it. Continue reading “Don’t Waste a Crisis”