by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Are we stupid abroad by accident or design?
In the manner of a doctor, let us review the symptoms of our present foreign policy and then offer a diagnosis: Continue reading “Our Schizoid Foreign Policy”
Tag: Barack Obama
Caught in the Middle East Minefield
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
America seems trapped in an exploding Middle East minefield.
Revolts are breaking out amid the choke points of world commerce. Shiite populations are now restive in the Gulf monarchies. Continue reading “Caught in the Middle East Minefield”
Libya Without Gaddafi: What to Expect, What to Watch For
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
One of the most surreal experiences of my life — even apart from having a ruptured appendix and emergency surgery in a Gaddafi-government clinic — was a spring assignment in Libya to lecture on the Roman ruins there (which are quite impressive, since the neglect and ensuing 40 years of sand have, in counterintuitive fashion, been a protective cocoon from Gaddafi’s far greater ravages). Continue reading “Libya Without Gaddafi: What to Expect, What to Watch For”
Decline Is in the Mind
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
It’s Over? Really?
In the last two years, we have a heard a constant litany of “decline,” as in America is over as it once was. Fifth-century AD Rome is often evoked, as are the contemporary economic miracles in China and India to “prove” inevitable American waning. Continue reading “Decline Is in the Mind”
After Obama, the Deluge
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
President Obama established a bipartisan debt-reduction commission — and then ignored its findings, which called for unpopular reductions in entitlements and across-the-board spending cuts. Continue reading “After Obama, the Deluge”
Historian and Contemporary Critic: Interview with VDH
by Randy Brich
Nuclear Street
Raw, uncut and uncensored Nuclear Street proudly presents Victor Davis Hanson, a historian who’s not only an expert on the past, but the present as well. Continue reading “Historian and Contemporary Critic: Interview with VDH”
Is an Egyptian “Democracy” a Good Thing?
by Raymond Ibrahim
Hudson New York
That democracy equates freedom is axiomatic in the West. Say the word “democracy” and images of a free, pluralistic, and secular society come to mind. Continue reading “Is an Egyptian “Democracy” a Good Thing?”
A New America in a New World Order
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
The year is quite young, and yet it has already seen a multitude of disturbing events and trends — unrest in Cairo and North Africa; nuclearization in Iran; a growing anti-American alliance among Turkey, Hezbollah, Iran, and Syria; the expansionary designs of a newly unabashed China with attendant repercussions on Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan; Continue reading “A New America in a New World Order”
Homer Economics
by Bruce S. Thornton
Advancing a Free Society
The showdown between public employee unions and cash-strapped state governments on display in Madison should be bad news for President Obama and the Democrats. Continue reading “Homer Economics”
But That’s What Community Organizers Do
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
During the Republican convention of 2008, Rudy Giuliani rhetorically asked: what is a community organizer? I think we always knew the answer without even referencing the guidebook of Saul Alinsky. Continue reading “But That’s What Community Organizers Do”