It’s time for reckless critics to own up. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online President Bush and Secretary Rumsfeld were both asked to apologize recently for the illegal and amoral behavior of a few miscreant soldiers at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Share This
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by Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers As gas prices rise at home, scream that the war abroad was fought to steal Iraqi oil and get American hands on cheap petroleum. Talk about American imperialism and hegemony while the United States spends billions of dollars to implant democracy in Afghanistan and Iraq. Share This
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We are doing to ourselves what the enemy could not. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Have we any memory of a man in a suit and tie, nearly three years ago wading through the din and panic amid the morning rubble, assuring millions of stunned Americans that the national headquarters of their armed
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by Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers Can we stop for a moment, take a deep breath, and remember the hysteria of the last three years—and then learn something from it? Share This
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Our enemies know us only too well. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The wars since September 11 have once more revealed the superiority of Western arms. Afghanistan may be 7,000 miles away, cold, high, and full of clans, warlords, and assorted folk who have historically enjoyed killing foreign interlopers for blood sport, but
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by Victor Davis Hanson Wall Street Journal Pictures of American military police humiliating and, in some cases, allegedly torturing Iraqi prisoners in Saddam’s old Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad now flash across the world. Share This
It is about more than just Fallujah. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online We are presently engaged in a world war for our civilization and its vision of a just and humane society. Our values will either endure this present struggle and indeed be invigorated by the ordeal, or like once great civilizations of
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What will be remembered? by Victor Davis Hanson San Francisco Chronicle In the present chaos in Iraq, of course, the war’s purpose and outcome seem clouded. Share This
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Will Iraq work? That’s up to us. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Myth #1: America turned off its allies. According to John Kerry, due to inept American diplomacy and unilateral arrogance, the United States failed to get the Europeans and the U.N. on board for the war in Iraq. Thus, unlike in Afghanistan,
American soldiers are as impressive abroad as we are embarrassing at home. by Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers These are not really dark times. Rather I think in some ways they are among the finest in our history. No other country would or could send its youth 7,000 miles away to end fascism, implement consensual government, and
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