Once again, Obama has proven more of an idealist than an implementer.
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Remember when President Obama used to warn Syria’s Bashar al-Assad to stop his mass killing and step down? Read more →
Hope for Change in Syria
Posted in: Syria, Benghazi, Nuclear Warfare / Tagged: Arab Spring, Barack Obama, Benghazi, Cario, Democracy, Egypt, Lead From Behind, Mainstream Media, Mohammed Morsi, Qaddafi, Syria, The Middle East, WMD
Diplomacy: What Not To Do
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
1980 Redux
We are in scary times. The horrific photos of Ambassador Stevens bring to mind memories of Mogadishu or Fallujah, and make us ask why were there not dozens, if not vastly more, Marines around him in his hour of need. By preemptively caving into radical Islam and not defending the US Constitution and our traditions of protecting even uncouth expression, the Cairo embassy’s shameful communiqué only invited greater hostility by such manifest appeasement. Read more →
Posted in: Diplomacy / Tagged: Arab Spring, Cario, Chris Stevens, Constitution, Hillary Clinton, Qaddafi
Oh What a Tangled Web
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Supporters of President Obama have dubbed those who question administration statements about Libya as either partisans or conspiracy theorists, on the premise that the administration had no reason to dissimulate. But in fact, it had plenty of political reasons not to be candid, as the following questions make clear. Read more →
Posted in: Benghazi, David Petraeus / Tagged: al-Qaeda, Barack Obama, Benghazi, David Petraeus, Libya, Qaddafi, Terrorism, Terrorism
President Ethelred
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Like old King Ethelred the Unready, who either had no counsel or had no sense, or both, and often paid the Danegeld rather than attempt to deter the Norsemen, so Barack Obama and his lieutenants still believe that they can both appease radical Islam and convince others that is not what they are doing. Read more →
Posted in: The Middle East / Tagged: Barack Obama, Benghazi, Egypt, Libya, Qaddafi, Susan Rice, The Middle East
Storming Embassies, Killing Ambassadors, and ‘Smart’ Diplomacy
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
The attacks on the US embassy yesterday in Cairo and the storming of the American consulate in Libya, where the US ambassador was murdered along with three staff members — and the initial official American reaction to the mayhem — are all reprehensible, each in their own way. Let us sort out this terrible chain of events. Read more →
Posted in: Benghazi / Tagged: 9/11, al-Qaeda, Arab Spring, Barack Obama, Cario, Constitution, Egypt, First Amendment, Free Speech, Libya, Mohamed al-Zawahiri, Muslim Brotherhood, Qaddafi, US Embassy
The Muddle East
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
No one has any idea what the Middle East will look like next year, much less in five years — especially the revolutionary players themselves. Read more →
Posted in: The Middle East / Tagged: al-Qaeda, Anti-Ameircan, Barack Obama, Christianity, Europe, Foreign Policy, History, Hitler, Iraq, Muslim Brotherhood, NATO, Nuclear Energy, Oil and Gas, Qaddafi, Saddam Hussein, Syria, The Middle East, The UN, West
Iraqi Irony
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Amid all the stories about the ongoing violence in Syria, the most disturbing is the possibility that President Bashar Assad could either deploy the arsenal of chemical and biological weapons that his government claims it has, or provide it to terrorists. Read more →
Posted in: Iraq / Tagged: Barack Obama, Bashar Assad, George Bush, James Clapper, Qaddafi, Saddam Hussein, Syria, The Middle East
Iran’s Win, Win, Win Bomb
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Iran, if not stopped, will join the nuclear club, probably within two or three years. It may be stupid to try to preempt Iran; it may be even stupider not to try. Read more →
Posted in: Iran, Nuclear Warfare / Tagged: A. Q. Khan, Argentina, Barack Obama, Bashar Assad, China, Iran, Iraq, Israel, NATO, North Korea, Nuclear Energy, Pakistan, Pyongyang, Qaddafi, Saddam Hussein, Tehran, Terrorism, The EU, The Middle East, West
Obama’s Virtual Rose Garden
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
When Barack Obama went into hibernation in December and vacationed in Hawaii, we noted that his poll numbers edged back up some. Read more →
Posted in: Campaign 2012 / Tagged: Barack Obama, Election 2012, Foreign Policy, Obama's America, Obamacare, Qaddafi
Obama in Never-Never Land
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
The chief tenet of postmodernism is that truth and facts are arbitrary constructs, set up by the privileged to manipulate others less fortunate. In the case of our first postmodernist president, Barack Obama, there cannot be facts, past or present, only a set of shifting assertions that gain credence to the degree that they prove transitorily useful for progressive causes. Read more →
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