When Cynicism Meets Fantacism
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Opponents of the war in Iraq, both original critics and the mea culpa recent converts, have made eight assumptions. The first six are wrong, the last two still unsettled.
This Old House
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services I live in a central California farmhouse built by my great-great-grandmother in the 1870s. But if the clapboard house looks more or less unchanged from its earliest photographs taken in the 1920s, the world down the road is unrecognizable.
Fighting Words
The definitive books on the battles of the 20th century. by Victor Davis Hanson WSJ Opinion Journal 1. “The Price of Glory” by Alistair Horne (St. Martin’s, 1963). Over the course of 10 months in 1916, the French and Germans killed or wounded about 1.25 million of their best soldiers in a few wooded acres […]
Hard Pounding
Who will keep his nerve? by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online If I could sum up the new orthodoxy about Iraq, it might run something like the following: “I supported the overthrow of the odious Saddam Hussein.
A Port Postmortem
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services In retrospect, America went collectively insane over the possibility that a company owned by Dubai’s government would operate several of our ports.
Teflon Europe
They’re just as bad as we are, online worse. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The prison at Guantanamo Bay was designed to interrogate terrorists and jihadists swept up from the battlefield: the idea was to keep them as prisoners of war in a war that was undeclared, and as enemy combatants without uniforms […]
Nothing Nuanced
Academic “diversity” speak gives pass to jihad, anti-Semitism and censorship. by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers Hats off to the UC Riverside College Republicans. They recently hosted a program that contrasted the sort of vile anti-Semitic slander that saturates the Muslim media, with the cartoons of Mohammed that sparked riots throughout with Muslim world.
The Lost Art
The apology used to show character. by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Americans have lost the art of saying “I am sorry.” Take outgoing Harvard President Larry Summers, who in the past year has apologized repeatedly. His crime? Saying that institutionalized bias might not completely explain the dearth of female scientists and mathematicians on […]
Why We Don’t Fight
A Review of Eugene Jarecki’s Why We Fight by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Magazine [This review of Eugene’s Jarecki’s recent Why We Fight recently appeared in National Review Magazine.]
The Great Stampede
Conservatives are losing their nerve on Iraq. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online In recent weeks prominent conservatives — William F. Buckley, Niall Ferguson, Francis Fukuyama, George Will, to a name only a very few — have, in various ways, suggested that the war in Iraq was either a mistake or unwinnable, or both.
Americans Shouldn’t Always Wish To Be Liked
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services When the golden dome of the Askariya shrine, a holy Shiite site in Iraq, was blown up last week, enraged militias did not attack American bases but rather went after Sunni extremists who, they privately believed, were the real culprits.
Rocks and Ripples
Playing it smart in the Middle East. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Fear in the U.S. of Russian nukes made strange bedfellows during the Cold War, like our relationship with the shah of Iran, Franco, Somoza, and Pinochet. The logic was that such strongmen, unlike Communist thugs, would evolve eventually into constitutional governments, […]
At War With Ourselves
We’re winning in Iraq. Let’s not lose at home. by Victor Davis Hanson WSJ Opinion Journal Last week the golden dome of the Askariya shrine in Samarra was blown apart. Sectarian riots followed, and reprisals and deaths ensued. Thugs and criminals came out of the woodwork to foment further violence.
The Other Iraq
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Taji, Iraq — Screaming Iraqis and mangled body parts still dominate Americans’ nightly two minutes of news from Iraq. And, indeed, Iraq is still a scary place within the Sunni Triangle.
Absolute Certainty
Think Islamic fanaticism arises from material want? Think again. by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers Coming hard upon the heels of the cartoon riots and the election of the Hamas terrorists, the destruction of the Shi’ite mosque of the Golden Dome in Samarra by Sunni jihadists, and the subsequent Shi’ite bloody retaliation, should put to […]
Standoff in Iraq: The IED vs. Democracy
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The insurgency in Iraq has no military capability either to drive the United States military from Iraq or to stop the American training of Iraqi police and security forces — or, for that matter, to derail the formation of a new government.
Appeasement 101
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services It is easy to damn the 1930s appeasers of Hitler — such as Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain in England and Edouard Daladier in France — given what the Nazis ultimately did when unleashed. But history demands not merely recognizing the truth post facto, but also trying to […]
What Will Europe Really Do?
by Victor Davis Hanson Real Clear Politics Nothing is quite as surreal as the Islamic world’s fury at the liberal and innocuous Danes. How could anyone wish to burn their embassies and kill their citizens, when they have always offered all the politically correct, multicultural platitudes and welcomed in any and all from the Middle […]
A European Awakening Against Islamic Fascism?
by Victor Davis Hanson Real Clear Politics Over the last four years Americans have played a sort of parlor game wondering when — or if — the Europeans might awake to the danger of Islamic fascism and choose a more muscular role in the war on terrorism.
Why No Nukes for Iran?
The rules of the game. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online How many times have we heard the following whining and yet received no specific answers from our leaders?