Has Ahamadinejad Miscalculated?

The Iranian president better sober up and do some cool reckoning.

by Victor Davis Hanson

National Review Online

We are now acquainted with the familiar scenario: Iran is supposedly poised to become another disaster like Iraq. The United States, bruised in Iraq, needs redemption, and so will either press onto Teheran in its vainglorious imperial ambitions, or seek to direct attention away from Iraq by conjuring up another dragon to slay. Continue reading “Has Ahamadinejad Miscalculated?”

Assimilation Is the Real Debate

by Victor Davis Hanson

Tribune Media Services

Hypocrisy and paradoxes abound when it comes to illegal immigration.

Even the fiercest critics of illegal immigrants in the American Southwest never seem to check first the legal status of those who fix their roofs, mow their lawns or wash their dishes. Continue reading “Assimilation Is the Real Debate”

Words and Deeds

How the Left cants.

by Bruce S. Thornton

Private Papers

A review of Peter Schweitzer’s Do as I Say (Not as I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy, (Doubleday, 2005, 272 pp.) Continue reading “Words and Deeds”

Protesters Run Amok

The backlash on immigration law may be yet to come.

by Victor Davis Hanson

Real Clear Politics

[This article appeared as “The Protests — Whose Backlash?” in realclearpolitics.com]

Hundreds of thousands of Mexican citizens, along with Mexican-Americans and Hispanics in general, hit the streets throughout the United States this past week in one of the largest displays of public outrage since the Vietnam-War era. Continue reading “Protesters Run Amok”

When Cynicism Meets Fantacism

by Victor Davis Hanson

National Review Online

Opponents of the war in Iraq, both original critics and the mea culpa recent converts, have made eight assumptions. The first six are wrong, the last two still unsettled. Continue reading “When Cynicism Meets Fantacism”

This Old House

by Victor Davis Hanson

Tribune Media Services

I live in a central California farmhouse built by my great-great-grandmother in the 1870s. But if the clapboard house looks more or less unchanged from its earliest photographs taken in the 1920s, the world down the road is unrecognizable. Continue reading “This Old House”

Fighting Words

The definitive books on the battles of the 20th century.

by Victor Davis Hanson

WSJ Opinion Journal

1. “The Price of Glory” by Alistair Horne (St. Martin’s, 1963).

Over the course of 10 months in 1916, the French and Germans killed or wounded about 1.25 million of their best soldiers in a few wooded acres around a fortress complex near the French town of Verdun on the Western Front. Continue reading “Fighting Words”

Hard Pounding

Who will keep his nerve?

by Victor Davis Hanson

National Review Online

If I could sum up the new orthodoxy about Iraq, it might run something like the following: “I supported the overthrow of the odious Saddam Hussein. Continue reading “Hard Pounding”

A Port Postmortem

by Victor Davis Hanson

Tribune Media Services

In retrospect, America went collectively insane over the possibility that a company owned by Dubai’s government would operate several of our ports. Continue reading “A Port Postmortem”

Teflon Europe

They’re just as bad as we are, online worse.

by Victor Davis Hanson

National Review Online

The prison at Guantanamo Bay was designed to interrogate terrorists and jihadists swept up from the battlefield: the idea was to keep them as prisoners of war in a war that was undeclared, and as enemy combatants without uniforms or officers. It had a no-win mandate, and will probably close soon due to international outcries about its supposed barbarity. Continue reading “Teflon Europe”