by Victor Davis Hanson The New Republic Most of the time in war, diplomatic machinations don’t create enduring realities–events on the battlefield do. After World War I, the defeated, but not humiliated, German army that surrendered in France and Belgium provided the origins for the “stab in the back” mythology that fueled Hitler’s rise to […]
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by Victor Davis Hanson The Australian The recent terrorist murdering of Westerners in Saudi Arabia had all the hallmarks of the present global war waged by al Qaeda and its sympathizers. Attack the Western presence in Saudi Arabia to force the departure of foreign experts. Share This
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Reviewed by Victor Davis Hanson Appeared in National Review Online, April 19, 2004 Surprise, Security, and the American Experience, by John Lewis Gaddis (Harvard, 160 pp., $18.95) Share This
by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers For the media the mistreatment of the prisoners in Iraq has been like chum thrown to starving sharks. Share This
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by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers For the media the mistreatment of the prisoners in Iraq has been like chum thrown to starving sharks. Share This
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by Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers There is a certain number of Iraqi terrorists that either need to give up, reconsider their militancy, leave the country, or be killed for there to be peace and the emergence of a consensual government. Share This
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When “Just Win, Baby” sadly trumps everything else. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online After our victory in Afghanistan, the president’s approval ratings soared, only to descend during the acrimony leading up to the March invasion of Iraq. But after the three-week war, somewhere between 60 and 70 percent of these same Americans purportedly
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How Jimmy Carter and academic multiculturalists helped bring us Sept. 11. by Victor Davis Hanson WSJ, Opinion Journal May 10, 2004 Imagine a different Nov. 4, 1979, in Tehran. Shortly after Iranian terrorists storm the American Embassy and take some 90 American hostages, President Carter announces that Islamic fundamentalism is not a legitimate response to the
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by Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers General William Tecumseh Sherman–a quirky, difficult, and much misunderstood man–deserves a place on the roll call of great liberators in human history. Share This
by Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers Strategy: A The dilemma of the United States in this war is not a strategic one. After September 11 Americans jettisoned the trendy, but flawed, exegesis that Islamic fascism was an irritant only—one that could be addressed by Grand Juries, cruise missiles, “boxing” in rogue nations like Iraq and Syria, and
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