Jumping Ship

by Victor Davis Hanson

PJ Media

This is becoming a very strange campaign.

On CNN recently both David Gergen and Ed Rollins echoed the current mantra that the “old” noble McCain is gone — and a “new” nastier one has emerged, largely because of his attacks on Ayers, perhaps his planned future ads on Wright, and a few unhinged people shouting at his campaign stops. Continue reading “Jumping Ship”

The Hammer: Saving the West at Tours in 732

by Raymond Ibrahim

Jihad Watch

Precisely 100 years of Islamic conquests after Muhammad’s death (632), the Muslims, starting from Arabia, found themselves in Gaul, modern day France, confronting a hitherto little known people — the Christian Franks. Continue reading “The Hammer: Saving the West at Tours in 732”

Hope and Despair

by Victor Davis Hanson

PJ Media

Pre-debate Anxieties

The problem with bringing up Ayers and Wright and the other assorted nuts of Obama’s weird Scipionic Circle — I think the most reprehensible of the discarded associates was the rather murderous Kenyan, Raila Odinga — is that it may now be too little too late. Continue reading “Hope and Despair”

Not Over Yet

Reasons for hope on the first Tuesday in November.

by Victor Davis Hanson

National Review Online

Of course, this is a Democratic year. The public is tired of George Bush and eight years of an incumbent administration. Continue reading “Not Over Yet”

What Is Wisdom?

by Victor Davis Hanson

National Review Online

There is a report today (I think first offered in the Huffington Post) that David Brooks, the gifted New York Times columnist, has described Sarah Palin as a “fatal cancer” and part of a larger pernicious conservative trend: Continue reading “What Is Wisdom?”

Osama bin Laden: Man of Love?

by Raymond Ibrahim

MESH (Middle East Strategy at Harvard)

In many ways, Michael Scheuer is the paradigmatic case of an otherwise knowledgeable and experienced Western adult who takes al Qaeda’s word at face value. Continue reading “Osama bin Laden: Man of Love?”

Iraq, Round Three

by Victor Davis Hanson

Policy Review

A review of Moment of Truth in Iraq: How a New ‘Greatest Generation’ of American Soldiers is Turning Defeat and Disaster into Victory and Hope by Michael Yon and Tell Me How This Ends: General David Petraeus and the Search For a Way Out of Iraq by Linda Robinson. Continue reading “Iraq, Round Three”

America’s Nervous Breakdown–and The World’s

by Victor Davis Hanson

Tribune Media Services

Ancient thinkers from Thucydides to Cicero insisted that money was the real source of military power and national influence. We’ve been reminded of that classical wisdom these last three weeks. Continue reading “America’s Nervous Breakdown–and The World’s”

What Al Qaeda Wants: A Debate with Michael Scheuer

by Raymond Ibrahim

Jihad Watch

I recently wrote something of a lengthy exposition regarding ex CIA analyst Michael Scheuer’s continuous characterizations of Osama bin Laden as at once Robin Hood, Saint Francis of Assisi, and Thomas Jefferson — that is, a man fighting oppression and tyranny, that and nothing more. Continue reading “What Al Qaeda Wants: A Debate with Michael Scheuer”

No We Can’t

The Democratic left wing has been determined to lose America’s wars.

by Bruce S. Thornton

City Journal