by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Despite the claims of terrorist organizations, Israel’s current two-front war is not just about land. After all, Hezbollah and Hamas fired rockets from Lebanonand Gaza well after Israel had withdrawn from both places. Continue reading “No Just Land: Middle East Conflict Is About Failed Culture”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
When I used to read about the 1930s — the Italian invasion of Abyssinia, the rise of fascism in Italy, Spain, and Germany, the appeasement in France and Britain, the murderous duplicity of the Soviet Union, and the racist Japanese murdering in China — I never could quite figure out why, during those bleak years, Western Europeans and those in the United States did not speak out and condemn the growing madness, if only to defend the millennia-long promise of Western liberalism. Continue reading “The Brink of Madness”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Magazine
[A shorter version of this essay appears in the current issue of National Reviewmagazine.] Continue reading “Riding Off Into the Sunset”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
We Americans don’t seem to worry that we owe billions of dollars to the Chinese, or that our oil hunger is enriching hostile rogue regimes, or that our annual budget deficit keeps adding to our national debt. Continue reading “The Fragility of the Good Life”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
A “ceasefire” would occur should Hezbollah give back kidnapped Israelis and stop launching missiles; it would never follow a unilateral cessation of Israeli bombing. In fact, we will hear international calls for one only when Hezbollah’s rockets are about exhausted. Continue reading “The Vocabulary of Untruth”
by Bruce S. Thornton
Private Papers
The New York Times editorial page published last Saturday a collection of short editorials on Israel ’s campaign to neutralize Hezbollah. Continue reading “The Impossible Peace”
by Bruce S. Thornton
Private Papers
The New York Times editorial page published last Saturday a collection of short editorials on Israel ’s campaign to neutralize Hezbollah. Continue reading “The Impossible Peace”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
The conventional wisdom is that the United States is so tied down that it can’t do much about the rocket attacks on Israel , the blatant sponsorship of terrorists by Iran and Syria , or the Iranian nuclear program. Continue reading “What Options Are Left?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Sum up the declarations of Hezbollah’s leaders, Syrian diplomats, Iranian nuts, West Bank terrorists, and Arab commentators — and this latest Middle East war seems one of the strangest in a long history of strange conflicts. Continue reading “A Strange War”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
The Bush administration should stop repeating that it is fighting the war on terror for truth, justice and the American way. Instead, the president and his staff should be blunt and explain that, since Sept. 11, it has had to choose between options that are bad or far worse. Continue reading “National Clarity: Bush Needs to Explain the Broad Context of War”