by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services “In peace and prosperity states and individuals have better sentiments, because they do not find themselves suddenly confronted with imperious necessities; but war takes away the easy supply of daily wants, and so proves a rough master that brings most men’s characters to a level with their fortunes.” […]
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A Review of The Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims edited by Andrew G. Bostom. by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers Four years after 9/11 the postmortem of that disaster continues to focus on the institutional failures of our intelligence agencies and government bureaucracies. Share This
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Are we isolationists, imperialists, or wide-eyed dreamers–or all and none? by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online For all the national angst over Afghanistan and Iraq, historians will come to appreciate that sometime after 2001 the United States embarked on a radically different, much riskier, and ultimately more humane foreign policy — one of both
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Liberal democracy is the good, not the perfect struggle. by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Not long ago Lt. Col. Erik Kurilla, an authentic American hero, was shot three times and wounded in Mosul, Iraq, as he led his men into a terrorist enclave. Share This
Parallels between Germany and the Arab World by Raymond Ibrahim Private Papers On occasion, one finds a historical pattern that provides a paradigm useful for interpreting contemporary world events. Share This
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by Victor Davis Hanson Washington Post Vietnam is once again in the air. Last month’s antiwar demonstrations in Crawford, Tex., have been heralded as the beginning of an antiwar movement that will take to the streets like the one of 30 years ago. Influential pundits — in the manner of a gloomy Walter Cronkite after
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August has passed, but its craziness may not have. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The Greeks believed that the rising of Sirius, the Dog Star, in August made the sun grow hot, and hence inaugurated a period when people acted a little crazy — as we ourselves all saw the past few weeks.
Gaza pullout will turn terror morass to conventional standoff. by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services “Brilliant tactician, lousy strategist.” So goes the conventional wisdom about the old bulldozer Ariel Sharon. Share This
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Iraq: Where socialists and anarchists join in with racialists and paleocons. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online It is becoming nearly impossible to sort the extreme rhetoric of the antiwar Left from that of the fringe paleo-Right. Both see the Iraqi war through the same lenses: the American effort is bound to fail and
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