Surreal Rules
The difficulties of fighting in an absurdly complicated region. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Prior to September 11, the general consensus was that conventional Middle East armies were paper tigers and that their terrorist alternatives were best dealt with by bombing them from a distance — as in Lebanon, Afghanistan, Iraq, east Africa, […]
No Just Land: Middle East Conflict Is About Failed Culture
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Despite the claims of terrorist organizations, Israel’s current two-front war is not just about land. After all, Hezbollah and Hamas fired rockets from Lebanonand Gaza well after Israel had withdrawn from both places.
The Brink of Madness
A familiar place. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online When I used to read about the 1930s — the Italian invasion of Abyssinia, the rise of fascism in Italy, Spain, and Germany, the appeasement in France and Britain, the murderous duplicity of the Soviet Union, and the racist Japanese murdering in China — I […]
Riding Off Into the Sunset
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Magazine [A shorter version of this essay appears in the current issue of National Reviewmagazine.]
The Fragility of the Good Life
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services We Americans don’t seem to worry that we owe billions of dollars to the Chinese, or that our oil hunger is enriching hostile rogue regimes, or that our annual budget deficit keeps adding to our national debt.
The Vocabulary of Untruth
Words take on new meanings as Israel struggles to survive. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online A “ceasefire” would occur should Hezbollah give back kidnapped Israelis and stop launching missiles; it would never follow a unilateral cessation of Israeli bombing. In fact, we will hear international calls for one only when Hezbollah’s rockets are about […]
The Impossible Peace
by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers The New York Times editorial page published last Saturday a collection of short editorials on Israel ’s campaign to neutralize Hezbollah.
The Impossible Peace
by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers The New York Times editorial page published last Saturday a collection of short editorials on Israel ’s campaign to neutralize Hezbollah.
What Options Are Left?
Arab Nations Show No Sign of Concessions or Desire for Peace. by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services The conventional wisdom is that the United States is so tied down that it can’t do much about the rocket attacks on Israel , the blatant sponsorship of terrorists by Iran and Syria , or the Iranian nuclear program.
A Strange War
Israel is at last being given an opportunity to unload on jihadists. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Sum up the declarations of Hezbollah’s leaders, Syrian diplomats, Iranian nuts, West Bank terrorists, and Arab commentators — and this latest Middle East war seems one of the strangest in a long history of strange conflicts.
National Clarity: Bush Needs to Explain the Broad Context of War
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services The Bush administration should stop repeating that it is fighting the war on terror for truth, justice and the American way. Instead, the president and his staff should be blunt and explain that, since Sept. 11, it has had to choose between options that are bad or far […]
Has Bush or the World Changed?
About “Cowboy Diplomacy.” by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online There is as much relief from realists as there is disappointment from neo-Wilsonians over a perceived change in U.S. foreign policy — what Timemagazine clumsily dubbed “The End of Cowboy Diplomacy.”
The Israel Enigma
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services What explains most of the world’s dislike of Israel ?
The Subtexts of War
Culture, oil, and reckless dissent. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Throughout this war there are various truths generally recognized, but rarely voiced.
Scapegoating Guantanamo
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services When President Bush arrived in Vienna last week, protestors bore “World’s No. 1 Terrorist” signs while chanting “We will, we will fight Bush.” A Harris Poll conducted prior to the president’s visit revealed that the European public thinks America is a greater global threat than either North Korea or Iran.
New World, Old Myths
A review of Charles C. Mann’s 1941: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Bruce S. Thornton Claremont Review of Books From the first moment of contact, Europeans viewed the American Indians through various mythic lenses.
Winning the Iraq Wars
All of its many fronts. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The present fighting is part of a fourth war for Iraq : Gulf War I, the twelve years of no-fly zones, the three-week war in 2003, and now the three-year-old insurrection that followed the removal of Saddam Hussein.
A Summer Reflection on Why America Works
by Victor Davis Hanson Real Clear Politics I was at a crowded central Sierra Nevada lake last weekend. The recreation scene there was a good example of how well the United States works as a cohesive society despite radically different public tastes.
Why the Democrats May Lose the 2008 Election
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Will President Bush’s current unpopularity translate into a Democratic recapture of either the House or Senate this fall — or a victory in the 2008 presidential election?
Despair and Hope
The short and long wars against radical Islam by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online In the short-term, the ongoing war with Islamic fascists from Afghanistan toIraq , and in peripheral areas from Canada and Manhattan to Madrid , Bali, andLondon , seems surreal.