Dark predictions for a post-withdraw world.
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
The present Washington parlor game is to argue over the consequences of a precipitous withdrawal from Iraq. Continue reading “Ripples of Retreat”
The New York Times Surrenders
A monument to defeatism on the editorial page
by Victor Davis Hanson
City Journal Online
On July 8, the New York Times ran an historic editorial entitled “The Road Home,” demanding an immediate American withdrawal from Iraq. It is rare that an editorial gets almost everything wrong, but “The Road Home” pulls it off. Consider, point by point, its confused — and immoral — defeatism. Continue reading “The New York Times Surrenders”
Upside-down Politics in the Middle East
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Jimmy Carter — a self-proclaimed champion of human rights and nonviolence — has called the U.S.’s unwillingness to accept the 2006 Palestinian election of the terrorists of Hamas “criminal.” Continue reading “Upside-down Politics in the Middle East”
The Real Threat to Civil Liberties
by Victor Davis Hanson
Real Clear Politics
A common liberal complaint against the Bush administration is its supposed trampling of civil liberties. The Patriot Act, wiretaps, and Guantanamo supposedly have undermined our freedoms — or so we are warned ad nauseam by liberal watchdogs. Continue reading “The Real Threat to Civil Liberties”
By the Sword: Ibrahim and Spencer Unveil the Truth of Islam
by Bruce S. Thornton
Private Papers
The New York Times’s Thomas Friedman is right on the mark most of the time in his analysis of the dysfunctions troubling the Muslim world and of our own failures in confronting them. Continue reading “By the Sword: Ibrahim and Spencer Unveil the Truth of Islam”
The Revolt on Illegal Immigration
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
After the utter collapse in the Senate last week of a comprehensive immigration bill, Washington insiders are blaming everyone and everything. Continue reading “The Revolt on Illegal Immigration”
Virtual War
We are in a collective Animal Farm
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
In the last two months, lunatic Islamic radicals have failed at weird mass murder plots at Fort Dix, New Jersey, and JFK Airport in New York. And now in Great Britain, more incompetent jihadists were foiled again — thanks to their inability to ignite flammable gas canisters. Continue reading “Virtual War”
Our Enemy’s Attrition
Reasons to reexamine the Middle East’s negative prognosis.
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
The majority opinion is that the occupation in Iraq has been so bungled that the blowback has ruined American efforts at promoting positive change throughout the Middle East. Continue reading “Our Enemy’s Attrition”
The Impending Food Fight
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
While we worry about gas prices, the costs of milk, meat and fresh produce silently skyrockets. So like the end of cheap energy, is the era of cheap food also finally over? Continue reading “The Impending Food Fight”
The Passions of the Left
CIA’s new revelations fans the flames of “progressive” myths of our past
by Bruce S. Thornton
Private Papers
The publication of the CIA’s “family jewels” — the record of its domestic spying, hare-brained plots against Castro, and mind-control experiments, among other oddities — is sure to add fuel to that roaring bonfire of a myth that so-called “progressives” have been warming their egos at for forty years. Continue reading “The Passions of the Left”