2002

The Lessons of Wellington

by Victor Davis Hanson New Criterion Perhaps with the exception of Churchill, England has produced no more a remarkable man of action than the Duke of Wellington, who put an end to the Napoleonic Wars at Waterloo–nearly six million dead and twenty-three years after France’s mad genius first declared war against Austria in 1792. Share …

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“I Love Iraq, Bomb Texas”.

by Victor Davis Hanson American Jewish Committee With this autumn’s discussion in Washington over what to do about Iraq there arrived also the season of protests. Share This

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A Funny Sort of Empire

Are Americans really so imperial? by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online It is popular now to talk of the American “empire.” In Europe particularly there are comparisons of Mr. Bush to Caesar — and worse — and invocations all sorts of pretentious poli-sci jargon like “hegemon,” “imperium,” and “subject states,” along with neologisms like …

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Baghgrad?

Removing Saddam from Baghdad. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Like Hitler, Saddam Hussein has shown flashes of strategic caginess — in summer 1990 gobbling up Kuwait and threatening Saudi Arabia before perplexed diplomats realized what he was really up to. Share This

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Perils of ‘The German Way’

What do these recent outbursts mean? by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Magazine The problem with the recent German criticism of President Bush was not Chancellor Schroeder’s willingness to voice unease with the purported American “adventure” in Iraq. Share This

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A Funny Morality

North Korea as a metaphor of the times by Victor Davis Hanson The Claremont Institute The disclosures of North Korean duplicity in acquiring nuclear weapons were disturbing for a variety of reasons, involving more than our national security. Share This

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Voices in the Wilderness

Versus the age-old sirens of appeasement by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Listening to the administration make the case for preemptive action brought reminders of similarly exasperated leaders of the past. Share This

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The Strangest of Times: A Perplexing World Stage

by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Skeptics cite a number of hypothetical disasters that might befall the United States should we attack Iraq. Share This

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Goodbye to Europe?

by Victor Davis Hanson American Jewish Committee In the aftermath of the catastrophe that struck the United States last September 11, few things can have been more dismaying to Americans than the attitude adopted by many of our closest European allies, whose sympathy for the loss of life was quickly replaced by skepticism, if not …

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An Aroused Citizenry

How democracies go to war. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Magazine We associate democracies with peace, and thus think that it is hard to convince thousands of free citizens to support a war. Share This

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