National Clarity: Bush Needs to Explain the Broad Context of 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”

Has Bush or the World Changed?

About “Cowboy Diplomacy.”

by Victor Davis Hanson

National Review Online

There is as much relief from realists as there is disappointment from neo-Wilsonians over a perceived change in U.S. foreign policy — what Timemagazine clumsily dubbed “The End of Cowboy Diplomacy.” Continue reading “Has Bush or the World Changed?”

The Subtexts of War

Culture, oil, and reckless dissent.

by Victor Davis Hanson

National Review Online

Throughout this war there are various truths generally recognized, but rarely voiced. Continue reading “The Subtexts of War”

Scapegoating Guantanamo

by Victor Davis Hanson

Tribune Media Services

When President Bush arrived in Vienna last week, protestors bore “World’s No. 1 Terrorist” signs while chanting “We will, we will fight Bush.” A Harris Poll conducted prior to the president’s visit revealed that the European public thinks America is a greater global threat than either North Korea or Iran. Continue reading “Scapegoating Guantanamo”

New World, Old Myths

A review of Charles C. Mann’s 1941: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

by Bruce S. Thornton

Claremont Review of Books

From the first moment of contact, Europeans viewed the American Indians through various mythic lenses. Continue reading “New World, Old Myths”

Winning the Iraq Wars

All of its many fronts.

by Victor Davis Hanson

National Review Online

The present fighting is part of a fourth war for Iraq : Gulf War I, the twelve years of no-fly zones, the three-week war in 2003, and now the three-year-old insurrection that followed the removal of Saddam Hussein. Continue reading “Winning the Iraq Wars”

A Summer Reflection on Why America Works

by Victor Davis Hanson

Real Clear Politics

I was at a crowded central Sierra Nevada lake last weekend. The recreation scene there was a good example of how well the United States works as a cohesive society despite radically different public tastes. Continue reading “A Summer Reflection on Why America Works”

Why the Democrats May Lose the 2008 Election

by Victor Davis Hanson

Tribune Media Services

Will President Bush’s current unpopularity translate into a Democratic recapture of either the House or Senate this fall — or a victory in the 2008 presidential election? Continue reading “Why the Democrats May Lose the 2008 Election”

Despair and Hope

The short and long wars against radical Islam

by Victor Davis Hanson

National Review Online

In the short-term, the ongoing war with Islamic fascists from Afghanistan toIraq , and in peripheral areas from Canada and Manhattan to Madrid , Bali, andLondon , seems surreal. Continue reading “Despair and Hope”