by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
The idea of a nuclear Iran — and of preventing a nuclear Iran — terrifies security analysts. Continue reading “Iran’s North Korean Furture”
Tag: Iran
Iran 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
On the campaign trail, presidential candidate Barack Obama once called for a “reset” policy with Iran. Supposedly, the unpopularity of the Texan provocateur George W. Bush and his administration’s inability to finesse “soft power” had needlessly alienated the Iranian theocracy. Continue reading “Iran 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0”
War’s Paradoxes II: From the Peloponnesian War to ‘Leading From Behind’
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
1. Why Did Athens Lose the Peloponnesian War?
It really did not in a way: Athens no more lost the war than Hitler did the Second World War between September 1939 and May 1941. Continue reading “War’s Paradoxes II: From the Peloponnesian War to ‘Leading From Behind’”
The All-Knowing, All-Powerful UN
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
If the UN now has the right and duty to intervene, in a morally relative manner, in territorial disputes between various groups and grant de factosovereignty, then the sky is the limit. Why go through the motions of two-party discussions at all? Continue reading “The All-Knowing, All-Powerful UN”
T-Ball War in the Middle East
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Classical explanations of conventional wars run something like this: An aggressor state seeks political advantage through military force. It has a hunch that the threatened target will likely either make concessions to avoid losing a war, or, if war breaks out, the resulting political gains will be worth the military costs to achieve victory. Continue reading “T-Ball War in the Middle East”
World Order, Under Siege?
by Victor Davis Hanson
Defining Ideas
What seems sometimes incomprehensible in the contemporary world makes perfect sense — if we pause and study a little history.
Continue reading “World Order, Under Siege?”
Anatomies of Electoral Madness
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
“Gonna be some hard times coming down.”
—Kris Kristofferson, Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
One way of making sense out of nonsense in this new age is simply to believe the opposite of what you read. I have been doing that and it often works. Continue reading “Anatomies of Electoral Madness”
The Scandal of Our Age
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Like Nothing Before
In the Watergate scandal, no one died, at least that we know of. Richard Nixon tried systematically to subvert institutions. Yet most of his unconstitutional efforts were domestic in nature — and an adversarial press [1] soon went to war against his abuses and won, as Congress held impeachment hearings. Continue reading “The Scandal of Our Age”
Parallel Betrayals: Iranian Revolution and Arab Spring
by Raymond Ibrahim
FrontPage Magazine
Many are the lessons to be learned between the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the current revolutions of the Arab world. Continue reading “Parallel Betrayals: Iranian Revolution and Arab Spring”
Obama’s Undiplomacy
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Most of the criticism of the Obama administration’s foreign policy concerns the failure of “reset diplomacy,” the inability to deal with Iran or North Korea, or the sense that we are ignoring allies and appeasing enemies. Continue reading “Obama’s Undiplomacy”