Truce or Taqiyyah
The Koran, Islamic tradition and al Qaeda’s leadership shed light on bin Laden’s offer. by Raymond Ibrahim Private Papers Osama bin Laden is apparently certain that the vast majority of Americans, including their policy-makers, are ignorant of al-Qaeda’s goals and strategies.
Making Sense of Nonsense
Understanding what we’re in. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The United States is engaged in the most radical and dangerous gambit in the Middle East since the end of the Ottoman Empire.
Hooked on Oil
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services For the foreseeable future, petroleum will power the global economy. There is far too little of it to go around — especially now that 2 billion Chinese and Indians are in the market. And the resulting scramble for oil warps all reason and common sense.
Bad Science
“Therapism” offers an unsavory salve for emotional trauma. by Bruce S. Thornton Commentary A review of One Nation Under Therapy. How the Helping Culture is Eroding Self-Reliance by Christina Hoff Sommers and Sally Satel (St. Martin’s Press, 310pp, $23.95).
The Multilateral Moment?
Our bad and worse choices about Iran. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Multilateralism good; preemption and unilateralism bad.”
Tweaking the United States
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services As the Iranian nuclear threat continues to grow, neither the United States nor Israel are eager to be damned by the global community for sending in bombers to take out Tehran’s dispersed and hard-to-find subterranean nuclear factories.
Reflection on 1862
War critics offer nothing new in 2006 by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers History, the Roman historian Livy said, is the best medicine for a troubled mind.
A Letter to the Europeans
Cry the beloved continent. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Despite the bitter recrimination and growing rift between you and us, most Americans have not forgotten that a strong, confident Europe is still critical to the material and spiritual well being of the United States.
Hollywood’s Misunderstood Terrorists
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services When terrorism goes to the movies in the post-Sept. 11 world, we might expect the plots, characters and themes to reflect some sort of believable reality. But in Hollywood, the politically correct impulse now overrides all else. Even the spectacular pyrotechnics, beautiful people and accomplished acting cannot hide […]
Mi Casa Es Su Casa
by Victor Davis Hanson Wall Street Journal “Shameful,” screams Mexico’s President Vicente Fox, about the proposed extension of a security fence along the southern border of the U.S. “Stupid! Underhanded! Xenophobic!” bellowed his Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez, warning: “Mexico is not going to bear, it is not going to permit, and it will not […]
The Plague of Success
The paradox of ever-increasing expectations. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online After September 11 national-security-minded Democratic politicians fell over each other, voting for all sorts of tough measures. They passed the Patriot Act, approved the war in Afghanistan, voted to authorize the removal of Saddam Hussein, and nodded when they were briefed about Guantanamo […]
Give ’em a Call
How to mitigate the collateral damage of hurt feelings. by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services When Abraham Lincoln conducted a controversial war, he stocked his Cabinet with former critics and potential rivals like Salmon Chase, Edwin Stanton and William Seward. Perhaps he sought a diversity of opinion or wished to appeal to a wider […]
Art Needs Moral Vision
Spielberg’s Munich offers only moral evasion by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers Technical or artistic skill cannot compensate for moral confusion. This simple truth about art is as old as Plato, and applies to popular art like the movies as much as it does to high art.
Why Not Support Democracy?
Our orphan policy in the Middle East. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Why still no big-font, front-page headlines screaming, “Millions Vote in Historic Middle East Election!” or “Democracy Comes At Last To Iraq” or “America’s Push for Iraqi Democracy Working”?
Iraq and Moral Distortion
by Victor Davis Hanson The American Enterprise Magazine The war that began on September 11, 2001 has unfortunately pushed international moral relativism and anti-Americanism back onto the front burner. Ugly paradoxes abound:
Fade Away
Nothing novel or memorable with our war critics by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services “I implore you to inaugurate or invite proposals for peace forthwith. And in case peace cannot now be made, consent to an armistice for one year.”
The Purple Finger
Iraqis know freedom’s knock better than our liberal media. by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers The election last Thursday in Iraq, the third since the U.S. invaded, is an astonishing historical event in the Muslim Middle East.
Lancing the Boil
We quietly keep in killing terrorists, promoting elections in Iraq, pressuring Arab autocracies to democratize, and growing the economy. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online For some time, a large number of Americans have lived in an alternate universe where everything is supposedly going to hell.
The Political Arcade
Presidents frustrate the sale of political rhetoric. by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Bill Clinton frustrated Republican critics. He passed welfare reform, waged a preemptive war against Slobodan Milosevic without either the approval of the Congress or the United Nations, and reined in federal spending. And so anguished conservatives had a hard time proving […]
Delium: The Battle Only One Man Wanted–Part V
by Victor Davis Hanson Military History Quarterly [Delium will appear this week in a five part series: 1)The Battle, 2) The Aftermath, 3) Armor and Ranks, 4) Innovation and the Battlefield, 5) Coalition Warfare]