The Day After
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Reconciliation I wish President-elect Obama well, and hope that even his critics can concede that he waged a successful and often brilliant (if not shrewdly stealthy) campaign.
Be Careful What You Wish For
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner A New Face For weeks we’ve been told that the Iraqis were playing tough and demanding time-lines for American withdrawal, the subtext being that mean George Bush was once again conniving for permanent imperial bases.
America Compared to What?
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services After the September financial meltdown, many abroad, and some at home, immediately — and with undisguised glee — blamed America’s problems on cowboy excess and forecast the end of American global influence.
A Blank Slate
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Attention, Little Knowledge Obama himself at various times in his memoirs — never have presidential autobiographies sold so many copies, and yet have been so little read by the press — talked about people seeing in him what they wished.
The End of Journalism
In 2008, journalism died and advocacy media took its place. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online There have always been media biases and prejudices. Everyone knew that Walter Cronkite, from his gilded throne at CBS news, helped to alter the course of the Vietnam War, when, in the post-Tet depression, he prematurely declared the […]
The Campaign Takes a Very Strange Turn
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Questions Still Not Answered Why didn’t Colin Powell and Co. jump ship in, say, June or July, and endorse Obama after many months of campaigning when his positions were already well known?
Al Qaeda and the Election
by Raymond Ibrahim The American Thinker Is al Qaeda trying to influence the American presidential election?
The Obama Enigma
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Lame-duck Republican President Bush’s dismal poll ratings have descended to those of Harry Truman’s when he left office.
An Instructive Candidacy
What Sarah Palin taught us about ourselves. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Soon this depressing campaign will be over, and we can reflect on what we learned from our two-month introduction to Sarah Palin.
Obama and Friends
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner A weird campaign gets weirder This campaign gets ever more surrealistic. For most of August and early September, Obama on the stump was complaining about the McCain campaign’s “lying” and “lies”; yet last night on CNN Ed Rollins and David Gergen were lamenting the “new” McCain who had authorized […]
It’s the Debt, Stupid
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Who caused the American financial panic and the wild swings in our financial system — and what are we going to do about it in the long term after the markets settle down?
Islam and Innocence
by Raymond Ibrahim Jihad Watch Just recently, a high ranking Pakistani cleric, one Munib ur-Rehmen,asserted that “Islam does not allow anybody to take lives of innocent people by any means.”
Jumping Ship
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media This is becoming a very strange campaign. On CNN recently both David Gergen and Ed Rollins echoed the current mantra that the “old” noble McCain is gone — and a “new” nastier one has emerged, largely because of his attacks on Ayers, perhaps his planned future ads on Wright, […]
The Hammer: Saving the West at Tours in 732
by Raymond Ibrahim Jihad Watch Precisely 100 years of Islamic conquests after Muhammad’s death (632), the Muslims, starting from Arabia, found themselves in Gaul, modern day France, confronting a hitherto little known people — the Christian Franks.
Hope and Despair
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Pre-debate Anxieties The problem with bringing up Ayers and Wright and the other assorted nuts of Obama’s weird Scipionic Circle — I think the most reprehensible of the discarded associates was the rather murderous Kenyan, Raila Odinga — is that it may now be too little too late.
Not Over Yet
Reasons for hope on the first Tuesday in November. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Of course, this is a Democratic year. The public is tired of George Bush and eight years of an incumbent administration.
What Is Wisdom?
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online There is a report today (I think first offered in the Huffington Post) that David Brooks, the gifted New York Times columnist, has described Sarah Palin as a “fatal cancer” and part of a larger pernicious conservative trend:
Osama bin Laden: Man of Love?
by Raymond Ibrahim MESH (Middle East Strategy at Harvard) In many ways, Michael Scheuer is the paradigmatic case of an otherwise knowledgeable and experienced Western adult who takes al Qaeda’s word at face value.
Iraq, Round Three
by Victor Davis Hanson Policy Review A review of Moment of Truth in Iraq: How a New ‘Greatest Generation’ of American Soldiers is Turning Defeat and Disaster into Victory and Hope by Michael Yon and Tell Me How This Ends: General David Petraeus and the Search For a Way Out of Iraq by Linda Robinson.
America’s Nervous Breakdown–and The World’s
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Ancient thinkers from Thucydides to Cicero insisted that money was the real source of military power and national influence. We’ve been reminded of that classical wisdom these last three weeks.