Introduction to E.B. Sledge’s ‘With the Old Breed’
by Victor Davis Hanson VDH was asked to do an introduction for a new edition of E.B. Sledge’s With the Old Breed, a memoir from the Pacific theater of World War II.
All’s Fair in Love and Talk Radio
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., caused a stir recently when she criticized talk radio for its role in stopping the recent immigration bill. Talk radio, she lectured, “pushes people to . . . extreme views without a lot of information.”
Ripples of Retreat
Dark predictions for a post-withdraw world. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The present Washington parlor game is to argue over the consequences of a precipitous withdrawal from Iraq.
The New York Times Surrenders
A monument to defeatism on the editorial page by Victor Davis Hanson City Journal Online On July 8, the New York Times ran an historic editorial entitled “The Road Home,” demanding an immediate American withdrawal from Iraq. It is rare that an editorial gets almost everything wrong, but “The Road Home” pulls it off. Consider, point by […]
Upside-down Politics in the Middle East
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Jimmy Carter — a self-proclaimed champion of human rights and nonviolence — has called the U.S.’s unwillingness to accept the 2006 Palestinian election of the terrorists of Hamas “criminal.”
The Real Threat to Civil Liberties
by Victor Davis Hanson Real Clear Politics A common liberal complaint against the Bush administration is its supposed trampling of civil liberties. The Patriot Act, wiretaps, and Guantanamo supposedly have undermined our freedoms — or so we are warned ad nauseam by liberal watchdogs.
By the Sword: Ibrahim and Spencer Unveil the Truth of Islam
by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers The New York Times’s Thomas Friedman is right on the mark most of the time in his analysis of the dysfunctions troubling the Muslim world and of our own failures in confronting them.
The Revolt on Illegal Immigration
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services After the utter collapse in the Senate last week of a comprehensive immigration bill, Washington insiders are blaming everyone and everything.
Virtual War
We are in a collective Animal Farm by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online In the last two months, lunatic Islamic radicals have failed at weird mass murder plots at Fort Dix, New Jersey, and JFK Airport in New York. And now in Great Britain, more incompetent jihadists were foiled again — thanks to their […]
Our Enemy’s Attrition
Reasons to reexamine the Middle East’s negative prognosis. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The majority opinion is that the occupation in Iraq has been so bungled that the blowback has ruined American efforts at promoting positive change throughout the Middle East.
The Impending Food Fight
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services While we worry about gas prices, the costs of milk, meat and fresh produce silently skyrockets. So like the end of cheap energy, is the era of cheap food also finally over?
The Passions of the Left
CIA’s new revelations fans the flames of “progressive” myths of our past by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers The publication of the CIA’s “family jewels” — the record of its domestic spying, hare-brained plots against Castro, and mind-control experiments, among other oddities — is sure to add fuel to that roaring bonfire of a myth […]
More Middle East Madness
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services “The Palestinian people will never forgive the Hamas gangs for looting the home of the Palestinian people’s great leader, Yasser Arafat.” So Palestinian Authority spokesman Abdel Rahman recently exclaimed. “This crime will remain a stain of disgrace on the forehead of Hamas and its despicable gangs.”
Hypocrisy That Undermines Civilization
by Victor Davis Hanson Real Clear Politics There is only a thin veneer that separates civilization from man’s innate barbarity. Some 2,500 years ago the historian Thucydides once warned us about the irony of revolutionaries and insurrectionists destroying this fragile patina of culture, as if they themselves might be exempt from ever wanting it back […]
Reactionary Amnesia
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online “Mess,” “fiasco,” “disaster,” “blunder,” and “catastrophe.” Fill in the blanks with almost any stock noun of gloom these days when speaking about Iraq.
Wanted
Coptic minorities fleeing religious persecution in Egypt by Raymond Ibrahim Private Papers Lest you think that the U.S. court system has made humanitarian considerations its first priority, as evidenced by the recent court ruling to release from military custody Ali Saleh al Marri — an al-Qaeda sleeper agent who was trained in Osama bin Laden’s […]
Who Is Illiberal on Immigration
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services The collapse last week of a comprehensive immigration bill in Congress that called for a huge guest-worker program, fast-track visas and a sort of earned citizenship for illegal aliens has unleashed a backlash against those opponents of it who prefer to close the border first and legislate the […]
Murder in Gaza: Why Israel and not Fatah is Demonized
by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers In Gaza the fighting between Fatah and Hamas has escalated to the point of all-out civil war, replete with dead women and children, kneecapping, and handcuffed prisoners thrown from roofs.
Honesty About Iraq
How are we doing? by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The United States can usually win even postmodern wars abroad if it can play to its strengths — which are marshaling our enormous material, intelligence, and technological advantages to defeat the enemy before he inflicts enough casualties to convince an affluent and comfortable public […]
The Other D-Day
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Sixty-three years ago this week, we landed on the Normandy beaches. As on each anniversary of June 6, 1944, much has been written to commemorate the bravery and competence of the victorious Anglo-American forces.