by Victor Davis Hanson // NRO’s the Corner
Of all the advice to Obama to reverse his brand of Carterism, the best might simply be to shut his eyes, and every time he gets angry and is about to say something about Israel, stop, and think first to substitute the reset vocabulary he has used with Putin in the past. And vice versa: Imagine Russia is “Israel!” and Putin “Netanyahu” each time he wants to see red and reset reset. Continue reading “A Modest Proposal on Ukraine”
by Bruce S. Thornton // FrontPage Magazine
Anbar province, the region of Iraq that 1,300 American soldiers died pacifying, is at risk of being taken over by al Qaeda jihadists and their affiliate, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant. Continue reading “The Fruit of Obama’s Abandonment of Iraq”
by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online
According to our recently proposed treaty with the Iranian government, Iran keeps much of its nuclear program while agreeing to slow its path to weapons-grade enrichment. The Iranians also get crippling economic sanctions lifted. Continue reading “Ignoring History: The Folly of Our Iran Pact”
by Victor Davis Hanson // NRO’s The Corner
The latest disclosure — and the most grave — of the Assad regime’s supposed deployments of chemical weapons puts the West in general and the U.S. in particular in an untenable position. Continue reading “Rhetoric Running on Empty”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Defining Ideas
At the turn of the century, Teddy Roosevelt famously advised statesmen to “speak softly and carry a big stick.” Continue reading “Obama’s Bluster Pulpit”
by Victor Davis Hanson
I cannot recall, in the last five years, Barack Obama ever identifying the Iranians, Hezbollah, or the late Hugo Chavez as among our “enemies,” in the fashion that he once urged Latino leaders to punish conservatives at the polls: Continue reading “If Only Our Foreign Enemies Were Republicans”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
In Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, he ran to the left of Hillary Clinton as a moral reformer. Continue reading “Obama’s Second-Term Embarrassments”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Ten Commandments for Our New Century
If you think our quiet lives of desperation can sometimes become a bit much, relax. Here are some guidelines to soothe your frustration — a few commandments that make sense out of today’s nonsense. Continue reading “The New Commandments on the Barn Wall”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
From 2007 to 2009, a surge of 20,000 troops under the generalship of David Petraeus saved a mostly lost war in Iraq. Continue reading “A Tale of Two Surges”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
We are in a fresh round of declinism — understandably, after borrowing nearly $5 trillion in less than three years and having very little to show for it. Continue reading “What America Does Best”