Hedging on Iraq

Which side will Americans choose to be on?

by Victor Davis Hanson

National Review Online

What exactly do we think is going on in Iraq? The Democratic platform hedges on the war, suggesting that reasonable people can argue over the need for last year’s intervention — as if Dennis Kucinich and Joe Lieberman have only slight disagreements about our involvement. Continue reading “Hedging on Iraq”

History’s Verdict: The Summer of 1944 and 2004

by Victor Davis Hanson

National Review Online

About this time 60 years ago, six weeks after the Normandy beach landings, Americans were dying in droves in France. Continue reading “History’s Verdict: The Summer of 1944 and 2004”

Allies, Friends, Neutrals, or Enemies?

by Victor Davis Hanson

Private Papers

For all the mayhem in the Sunni Triangle, and for all our mishaps at trying to reconstruct a pathological society reeling from 30 years of mass murder, we are now seeing the emergence of new civilized beginnings in Iraq. Continue reading “Allies, Friends, Neutrals, or Enemies?”

The Ayatollah of Anti-Americanism

by Bruce S. Thornton

Private Papers

The Anti-Chomsky Reader, ed. by Peter Collier and David Horowitz (Encounter Books) Continue reading “The Ayatollah of Anti-Americanism”

Civilization vs. Trivia

Sometimes life’s choices are simple.

by Victor Davis Hanson

National Review Online

Last week, the carnivore Saddam Hussein faced the world in the docket. There was none of the usual Middle East barbarity. The mass murderer was not hooded and then beheaded on tape, in the manner of al Qaeda. Civilization has come to Iraq. Continue reading “Civilization vs. Trivia”

Another 9/11?

The awful response that we dare not speak about

by Victor Davis Hanson

National Review Online

Almost daily we are assured that another attack on the homeland, commensurate with 9/11, is inevitable. What a scary mood of fatalism we are in! Where will it happen? The Olympics? The party conventions this summer? A week before the election? Chicago? L.A.? Continue reading “Another 9/11?”

The Moral Choice: What America Needs to Defend Democracy

by Bruce S. Thornton

Private Papers

The next half-year will see some of the most critical months in American history. Continue reading “The Moral Choice: What America Needs to Defend Democracy”

Fantasyland

by Victor Davis Hanson

Private Papers

We live in an upside-down civilization of hit Michael Moore conspiracy films, of novels about how to kill a sitting President of the United States, of elite American newsmen ridiculing brave Iraq democrats, and of allied peoples abroad who tell pollsters that they prefer beheaders and fascists to win in Iraq. Perhaps we should take a hard look at this current mythic world. Continue reading “Fantasyland”

Fantasyland

by Victor Davis Hanson

Private Papers

We live in an upside-down civilization of hit Michael Moore conspiracy films, of novels about how to kill a sitting President of the United States, of elite American newsmen ridiculing brave Iraq democrats, and of allied peoples abroad who tell pollsters that they prefer beheaders and fascists to win in Iraq. Perhaps we should take a hard look at this current mythic world. Continue reading “Fantasyland”

High Noon on June 30?

by Victor Davis Hanson

The Oregonian

Pessimism surrounds the proposed June 30th transfer from the American-led coalition authority to the Iraqi interim government. Critics, left and right, fear that we are ram-rodding democracy down the throats of Iraqis. Continue reading “High Noon on June 30?”