[Transcript of September 21, 2005 Webchat with U.S. Department of State. This moderated chat was conducted by the U.S. State Department International Information Programs. For more information, please click U.S. Department of State’s International Information Programs]
The IIP article about this chat is available in the U.S. Department of State’s Archive. Continue reading “Webchat with VDH”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
In widespread public exasperation, everyone now has the answer for Iraq, but also a strange amnesia about why we are doing what we are doing. Continue reading “Strategy, Strategy Everywhere…”
by Bruce S. Thornton
Private Papers
Imagine that you started receiving letters in the mail accusing your neighbor of being a child molester. Continue reading “Sobriety Lost”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Remember all of this about Hurricane Katrina? Continue reading “Our Media Hurricane”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Where does the United States stand in its so-called global war against terror, four years after the September 11 attack? The news is both encouraging and depressing all at once. Continue reading “Our Rock of Sisyphus”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
“In peace and prosperity states and individuals have better sentiments, because they do not find themselves suddenly confronted with imperious necessities; but war takes away the easy supply of daily wants, and so proves a rough master that brings most men’s characters to a level with their fortunes.” Continue reading “Our Perfect Storms”
Washington Post Continue reading “Questions on “Why We Must Stay in Iraq””
by Bruce S. Thornton
Private Papers
Four years after 9/11 the postmortem of that disaster continues to focus on the institutional failures of our intelligence agencies and government bureaucracies. Continue reading “The Forbidden History”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
For all the national angst over Afghanistan and Iraq, historians will come to appreciate that sometime after 2001 the United States embarked on a radically different, much riskier, and ultimately more humane foreign policy — one of both pulling in our horns while at the same time promoting risky democratic reform in targeted areas. Continue reading “Our Strange Foreign Policy”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Not long ago Lt. Col. Erik Kurilla, an authentic American hero, was shot three times and wounded in Mosul, Iraq, as he led his men into a terrorist enclave. Continue reading “The Imperfect War”