by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
The German Stereotype
There were lots of stories that left a lot unsaid. The Germany/EU debt imbroglio was one of them. Continue reading “The No News Stories of 2011”
Tag: Anti-Ameircan
Obama’s Christmas Gift to Iran
by Bruce S. Thornton
FrontPage Magazine
As the last American troops roll south to Kuwait, the end of the war in Iraq invites unsettling comparisons to another war America declared over before losing its nerve and snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Continue reading “Obama’s Christmas Gift to Iran”
Obama’s Empty Apologetics
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
At any time in the 2,500-year history of Western diplomacy, has a head of state been advised by his host not to apologize for a long-ago act? I cannot think offhand of any instance until, apparently, two years ago. Continue reading “Obama’s Empty Apologetics”
The Middle East Mess
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Libya, Iraq, Syria, Iran, and the All the Same Old, Same Old Mess
Each country in the Middle East poses unique challenges. That said, gender apartheid, religious intolerance, tribalism, dictatorship, statism, and lack of transparency and free expression are widely shared in the region, and mean that any particular policy will almost immediately collide with some two millennia of habit and custom antithetical and often hostile to the values of the West. Continue reading “The Middle East Mess”
Post-9/11 -Isms and -Ologies: A Look Back at a Decade
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
The Never-ending Day
Like millions of Americans, I did not sleep much on the night of September 11. Continue reading “Post-9/11 -Isms and -Ologies: A Look Back at a Decade”
Liberating Libya for Jihadists
by Bruce S. Thornton
FrontPage Magazine
The fall of Muammar Gaddafi is making some in the West giddy with the usual “Arab Spring” wishful visions of democracy and freedom flourishing throughout the Muslim Middle East, even as the last binge of democratic intoxication, the fall of Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak, has left the hangover of a newly empowered Muslim Brotherhood, increasing assaults on Christian Copts, growing anti-Americanism, and terrorist attacks on Israel originating in Egypt and including Egyptian citizens among the attackers. Continue reading “Liberating Libya for Jihadists”
Muslim Disloyalty to Americans: The Case of Pfc. Naser Jason Abdo
by Raymond Ibrahim
PJ Media
To anyone familiar with Muslim doctrine, Pfc. Naser Jason Abdo’s actions — from refusing to deploy to Afghanistan lest he kill fellow Muslims, to plotting a terror attack to kill fellow Americans — make perfect sense and accord especially well with Islam’s dichotomous doctrine of wala wa bara, often translated as “loyalty and enmity.” Continue reading “Muslim Disloyalty to Americans: The Case of Pfc. Naser Jason Abdo”
Liberal Frankensteins
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
This Fourth of July, what remains is the Founders’ vision of a limited government; the idea of a population united by common values, themes, and ideas; a republican form of checks-and-balances government to prevent demagoguery, factions, and tyranny of the majority; the sanctity and autonomy of the nation-state; and individual freedom and liberty as protected through the Bill of Rights. Everything after and against that has proved a failure. Continue reading “Liberal Frankensteins”
What We Might Remember This Memorial Day
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
The world is a better place because Adolf Hitler did not preserve his conquest of the European continent, and because the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere of Hideki Tojo and his militarists imploded at Midway, Guadalcanal, and Okinawa. Continue reading “What We Might Remember This Memorial Day”
Adios, Pakistan
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
“I don’t care if someone is giving us money; we are not a purchasable commodity. We cannot be bought. We can live in hunger, but we won’t compromise our national interests.”
– Bashir Bilour, a Pakistani senior minister, in angry response following an al-Qaeda reprisal for the American killing of Osama bin Laden Continue reading “Adios, Pakistan”