The Looking-Glass War in Iraq
For the war, then against it, and now for it? by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online We can learn a lot about ourselves from the looking glass of Iraq.
Epistle to the Muslims
Christian leaders abase themselves before Islam by Bruce S. Thornton City Journal On November 18, the New York Times ran a full-page ad entitled “A Christian Response to A Common Word Between Us and You.”
Soft Neocons
With Iraq improving, will Neocon ideas return? by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services More than seven months ago, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., claimed that Iraq was “lost.”
Ideology Trumps Truth on Campus
The doors are open for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but closed for Larry Summers by Bruce S. Thornton City Journal Many observers noted that Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s recent visit to Columbia University took place at about the same time that the University of California at Davis canceled a speaking appearance by former Harvard president Lawrence Summers, […]
The Bateman Files – Case Closed
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media I was once more under-whelmed by Mr. Bateman’s fourth and final attack on Carnage and Culture.
Bateman Encore
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media And on and on and on and on from the increasingly unhinged LTC Bateman….
Iraq’s Savage Ironies
Adaptability, self-critique, and persistance will prevail. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The war in Iraq — as all wars — is fraught with savage ironies. In the build-up to the invasion, anti-Americanism in Europe reached a near frenzy.
When Good News Is No News
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services There’s an old expression about war: “Victory has many fathers, while defeat is an orphan.” But in the case of Iraq, it seems the other way around. We’ve blamed many for the ordeal of the last four years, but it is the American victory in Anbar province that […]
The Fascistic Mind
A Comparison of The Al Qaeda Reader and Mein Kampf by Raymond Ibrahim National Review Online A number of book reviewers have recently pointed to the similarities between The Al Qaeda Reader and Mein Kampf. For instance, writing in the New York Observer, James Buchan notes that, “In their [al Qaeda’s] brutality and candor, their fulminations against democracy and loose morals, their obsession […]
Freedom, Even from Fear
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online A civilization is won or lost by those who fight to protect it — and judged as deserving by the gratitude offered to its soldiers by those who were saved. Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that there are now Americans in battle in the tradition of 1776, 1864, 1918, […]
The Oil Hydra
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Oil is nearly $100 a barrel. Gas may soon reach $4 a gallon. And Americans are being bitten in almost every way imaginable by this insidious oil hydra.
Dictators and Democrats
Stick with principles–not personalities by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online I don’t think many Americans would argue that the answer for the sometimes lethargic, elected Karzai government in Afghanistan should be a coup by a Pashtun warlord and his battle-hardened lieutenants.
Liberal Racism
The assault on skilled, independent, intelligent blacks by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers When Barack Obama accused Hillary Clinton of “playing the gender card,” the hypocrisy that typically defines our public discourse on race descended into the surreal.
Squaring Off: Part II
Hanson replies to criticisms of Ltc. Bateman by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media I suppose “devil” is not as bad as “pervert” or “feces”
Squaring Off
Hanson replies to criticisms of Ltc. Bateman by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media I used to have a great deal of respect for the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Please–Not Another Farm Bill
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services The House this July passed another five-year, multi-billion-dollar farm support bill. The Senate now has its own version under discussion. And we can probably expect that the compromise bill that passes will be at least the $286 billion allotted by the House.
The Old Schell Game
by Victor Davis Hanson The New Criterion A review of The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger by Jonathan Schell (Metropolitan Books, 2007, 272 pp.) During the nuclear freeze movement of the 1980s, Jonathan Schell became well known for his detailed arguments calling for global nuclear disarmament.
So Who’s Afraid of an Iranian Bomb?
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services At first glance, it would seem a straightforward thing to stop a relatively weak but volatile Iran from obtaining a nuclear bomb. It would also seem to be something a concerned world community would be actively working to do.
Hardly Turkish Delight
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner I thought (and wrote to that effect) that both the gratuitous and toothless Senate resolutions calling for the de facto trisection of Iraq, and condemnation of Turkey for the century-old Armenian holocaust were unnecessary barbs that would only inflame an already anti-American Turkey.
The Legacy of the Bush Administration?
by Victor Davis Hanson The American This article appears in the “Geopolitics” section of the recent issue of The American. By October, 15 months before his presidency would end, George Bush’s approval ratings still hovered around 30 percent.