What’s in a word?
by Bruce S. Thornton
Private Papers
The war against Islamic jihad continues to be compromised in the West by the dominant narrative that supposedly makes sense of the conflict. Continue reading “Muslim “Moderates””
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.
2007: The Bills That Came Due
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
2007 reminded us that our easy way of life comes at a price, and that there are consequences and tradeoffs in almost everything we do. Let’s go down the list. Continue reading “2007: The Bills That Came Due”
Pakistani Punditry
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
Lost in all the frenzied reaction to the Bhutto assassination is any consistency of critique. So we hear that the U.S. is to be blamed for not pressuring Musharraf, and yet blamed for putting all our eggs in the democratic basket of Benazir Bhutto. Continue reading “Pakistani Punditry”
A Long War in a Nutshell: A Look Back
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Views on the war in Iraq now transcend reasonable discussion. The war rests in the realm of emotion, warped by the hysteria of partisan bickering. Continue reading “A Long War in a Nutshell: A Look Back”
Common Sense
Who needs “intelligence” to know Iran wants nukes?
by Raymond Ibrahim
Private Papers
Much of the current debate surrounding Iran’s nuclear aspirations centers on the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) report which “judge[s] with high confidence that in fall 2003, Tehran halted its nuclear weapons program.” Continue reading “Common Sense”
The Clinton Albatross
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
If polls are accurate, Sen. Hillary Clinton’s once-sure bid for the Democratic presidential nomination is now not so sure. Her wide lead vanished without warning in Iowa and New Hampshire — and maybe elsewhere as well. Continue reading “The Clinton Albatross”
Straight Talk
Podhoretz corrects the record on Islamic terrorism
by Bruce S. Thornton
Private Papers
A review of World War IV. The Long Struggle against Islamofascism by Norman Podhoretz (Doubleday 2007, 240 pp.) Continue reading “Straight Talk”
In War: Resolution
by Victor Davis Hanson
The Claremont Review
“Iraq,” swears Al Gore, “was the single worst strategic mistake in American history.” Senate Majority leader Harry Reid agrees that the war he voted to authorize is “the worst foreign policy mistake in U.S. history,” and indeed is already “lost.” Continue reading “In War: Resolution”
Huckabee and the Chattering Classes
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
I having been reading some of the reactions to the negative appraisal of NRO writers to Huckabee’s Foreign Affairs essay — the gist of it being he was unfairly ganged up on by supposed neo-cons and other purported East-Coast elites. Continue reading “Huckabee and the Chattering Classes”
All Mixed-up Over Iran
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Last week’s U.S. National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) states, with “high confidence,” that Iran quit trying to get a nuclear bomb in late 2003. That’s exactly the opposite of what the NIE reported just two years ago, when it claimed Iran’s ruling mullahs were still developing nuclear weapons. Continue reading “All Mixed-up Over Iran”