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VDH UltraThe Crybaby Iran and Its Feet of Clay, Part One

Victor Davis Hanson For nearly half a century the West has feared the lunatic theocracy in Iran. Jimmy Carter helped create the phantasma of a dangerous, unpredictable, and venomous regime. But how did such an image become entrenched in the West? Carter was humiliated in 1979–80 by his continued refusal to warn the Iranian revolutionary

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VDH UltraThe Incoherence of the Mexican Flag and Mexico’s Foolish Rhetoric, Part Two

Victor Davis Hanson Mexico seems clueless about the current asymmetries and the huge benefits it has been accruing at U.S. expense, as if these benefits are somehow its birthright. Currently, some $63 billion in remittances are sent to Mexico from mostly Mexican immigrants, the majority believed to be here illegally. And many of that cohort

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Ten Iranian Questions

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness 1. What are we to make of Saturday night’s destruction of the three Iranian nuclear sites at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan? Trump and the U.S. military took a great risk and succeeded in astounding fashion. Operationally, the destruction of the nuclear sites seems to have gone perfectly, in contrast to

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