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.
G-8 Precipice
It’s a different world. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The fitting geological metaphor for the so-called G-8 meeting in Germany is not a summit, but a precipice — as the world’s leaders scramble around to grab something before one of them falls into the abyss.
The Global Immigration Problem
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Thousands of aliens crossing our 2,000-mile border from an impoverished Mexico reflect a much larger global one-way traffic problem.
Is the Sky Falling on America?
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services The suicide-murders and roadside bombs in Iraq and Afghanistan sicken Americans. Soon-to-be nuclear Iran seems loonier than nuclear North Korea. American debt keeps piling up in China and Japan. And we think of angry Venezuela, the Middle East and Russia every time we fill up — if we […]
Crying Wolf
What is the real scandal in the World Bank? by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers The departure of Paul Wolfowitz from the World Bank has nothing to do with his alleged misdeeds.
Another Month in the War
This is a baffling sort of “containment” we’re seeing. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online May was another normal month in the war against Islamism. At home, a delusional Rosie O’Donnell was back at it.
The New Penance Doesn’t Offset Much
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services What do leftist, mostly secular elites share with medieval sinners? They feel bad that the way they live sometimes doesn’t quite match their professed dogma.
Seeking Sympathy from the Infidel
Zawahiri invokes the language of social justice. by Raymond Ibrahim National Review Online In an unprecedented effort to rally popular support, al Qaeda is apparently trying to refashion its image from an ultra-conservative, radical Islamist group with clear and precise goals — the ultimate being to implement sharia law around the globe — to what the liberal […]
There’s a War Still Going On…
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online They didn’t ask necessarily for this war; but nevertheless our soldiers and officer corps brilliantly defeated Saddam Hussein in three weeks under the strict parameters set by political leaders.
Islamic Apologetics
Ignore history and focus on platitudes of peace and love? by Raymond Ibrahim National Review Online Islamic apologist extraordinaire Karen Armstrong is at it again. In an article entitled “Balancing the Prophet” published by the Financial Times, the self-proclaimed “freelance monotheist” engages in what can only be considered second-rate sophistry.
Your War, Not Mine
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services “This war is lost,” Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid recently proclaimed.
Al Qaedism, Again
Another straw on the back on the proverbial American camel. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Why would Albanian-speaking Muslim refugees from the Balkans try to murder American soldiers? After all, the United States — not bin Laden’s rag-tag jihadists — saved Bosnia and Kosovo? And we did that by bombing the capital of […]