Been There, Done That: Policy in the Middle East
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services With much fanfare, President Barack Obama announced a new effort to end the endless Israeli-Palestinian struggle — by naming a brand-new Middle East envoy, former Sen. George Mitchell.
The Apocalyptic Style
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner The Problem Following the speaker’s prediction of 500 million jobs lost a month, Secretary of Energy Chu now warns there will be no more vineyards in California soon, indeed, no more agriculture at all as we know it.
Unwarranted Self-Abasement
by Bruce S. Thornton FrontPageMagazine.com George Bush’s vigorous defense of our national security and vocal pride in our values and goodness went a long way to getting rid of the “kick me” sign liberal America has hung on our collective back.
Hope He Can Change
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media An Obamaplosion I get loads of quasi-hate mail about questioning Obama’s candidacy and governance. But I am worried, not about Obama, or the politics of governance, but about the nation itself.
Suicidal Appeasement
by Bruce S. Thornton FrontPageMagazine.com One of the most potent weapons in the jihadist arsenal is the failure of nerve that has afflicted the West for the last forty years.
It Isn’t Easy Being a Saint
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media All of you readers have had this odd experience. Just remember a bit.
President Hamlet: It’s ‘to Be or Not to Be’ Time for Obama
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Instead of Scott McClellan, who was inept and disingenuous as White House spokesman, we now get Robert Gibbs, a nicer sort — who is likewise inept and disingenuous.
Time to Beam Down to Earth
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Last week the United States got lucky again and took out several suspected terrorists by Predator drone attacks over Pakistan. Anti-war critics prior to Jan. 20 used to decry “collateral damage” from such controversial strikes.
The Obama Interview
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner The problem with Obama’s Al Arabiya interview (which I wrote about at length elsewhere):
Phony War: Afghanistan and the Democrats
by Victor Davis Hanson World Affairs Most Americans in 2003 thought that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were complementary theaters in the wider war on radical Islamic terrorism and the authoritarian Middle East regimes that aided and abetted it.
Dancing Around Landmines: The Obama Al-Arabiya Interview
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media President Barack Obama is being praised for choosing an Arabic TV network for his first formal television interview: the Dubai-based, Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya news channel. I think we can all appreciate the thinking behind such bold outreach, given that the media at home has chortled to the world that our […]
Unreal Expectations?
President Obama Asked for Them by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services For nearly three months since the election, we have been warned by President Obama, his staff and the media not to burden him with unreal expectations that no mere mortal could meet.
Don’t Waste a Crisis
Absorbing as much of the economy as possible. by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Euphemism comes from the Greek word euphemia, which means “using the good word”—usually in place of the accurate bad one. Recently we’ve become experts at it.
Israel’s Fight for Survival
by Bruce S. Thornton FrontPage Magazine Israel’s fight for survival is not only against Hamas, Hezbollah, and their state sponsors Syria and Iran.
An Uneasy Feeling
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Yesterday.. All Americans must appreciate the outpouring of good will, unity, and hope for a successful Obama administration. But I had a certain feeling of uncertainty yesterday at the coverage of the festivities.
Bush Considered
American is a safer place thanks to his administration. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online A disinterested appraisal of Bush administration foreign policy will take years. For millions on the Left, events in Iraq, Guantánamo, and New Orleans rendered the 43rd president an ill-omened phantasma — omnipotent, ubiquitous, and responsible for all mischief big and […]
Novus Ordo Seclorum
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Presidential oddities Obama has been very good in lowering expectations by reminding us 24/7 that there are no easy solutions to the present fiscal meltdown. True enough.
Obama: The Great American Hope?
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services There is great hope that President-elect Obama will change the course of U.S. foreign policy, create far greater goodwill toward America, and thereby ease world tensions. Such optimism is not based on former Sen. Obama’s foreign-policy experience. In essence, he has none.
Obama: The Great American Hope?
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services There is great hope that President-elect Obama will change the course of U.S. foreign policy, create far greater goodwill toward America, and thereby ease world tensions. Such optimism is not based on former Sen. Obama’s foreign-policy experience. In essence, he has none.
From Gaza to Guantanamo
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media A strange contrast If one can endure the creepy, multifarious Hamas recruiting videos of Gazan children with suicide belts, camouflage uniforms, and toy AK-47s shouting to “kill the Jews”, and then collates all that with the images of young Hamas males with hoods and masks, RPGs and rocket launchers, […]