Pakistani Punditry
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Lost in all the frenzied reaction to the Bhutto assassination is any consistency of critique. So we hear that the U.S. is to be blamed for not pressuring Musharraf, and yet blamed for putting all our eggs in the democratic basket of Benazir Bhutto.
A Long War in a Nutshell: A Look Back
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Views on the war in Iraq now transcend reasonable discussion. The war rests in the realm of emotion, warped by the hysteria of partisan bickering.
Common Sense
Who needs “intelligence” to know Iran wants nukes? by Raymond Ibrahim Private Papers Much of the current debate surrounding Iran’s nuclear aspirations centers on the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) report which “judge[s] with high confidence that in fall 2003, Tehran halted its nuclear weapons program.”
The Clinton Albatross
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services If polls are accurate, Sen. Hillary Clinton’s once-sure bid for the Democratic presidential nomination is now not so sure. Her wide lead vanished without warning in Iowa and New Hampshire — and maybe elsewhere as well.
Straight Talk
Podhoretz corrects the record on Islamic terrorism by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers A review of World War IV. The Long Struggle against Islamofascism by Norman Podhoretz (Doubleday 2007, 240 pp.)
In War: Resolution
by Victor Davis Hanson The Claremont Review “Iraq,” swears Al Gore, “was the single worst strategic mistake in American history.” Senate Majority leader Harry Reid agrees that the war he voted to authorize is “the worst foreign policy mistake in U.S. history,” and indeed is already “lost.”
Huckabee and the Chattering Classes
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner I having been reading some of the reactions to the negative appraisal of NRO writers to Huckabee’s Foreign Affairs essay — the gist of it being he was unfairly ganged up on by supposed neo-cons and other purported East-Coast elites.
All Mixed-up Over Iran
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Last week’s U.S. National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) states, with “high confidence,” that Iran quit trying to get a nuclear bomb in late 2003. That’s exactly the opposite of what the NIE reported just two years ago, when it claimed Iran’s ruling mullahs were still developing nuclear weapons.
An Encouraging Revelation: Bin Laden’s Latest Message in Context
by Raymond Ibrahim Private Papers Full of the same old complaints, threats of retaliation, and victim status role that have become mainstays of al Qaeda propaganda, Osama bin Laden’s latest release would seem to offer nothing new.
Conventionally Ignorant
The same old simplicities about Iraq. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Washington is an echo chamber. One pundit, one senator, one reporter proclaim a snazzy “truth” and almost immediately it reverberates as gospel. Conventional wisdom about Iraq is rarely questioned. A notion seems to find validity not on its logic or through empirical […]
Three-Letter Menace
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Christopher Hitchens has a good piece on the bad CIA (“worse than useless”). Surely our various intelligence organizations are practicing a sort of subversion, whether due to a condescending animus toward George Bush, or to a more generic arrogance that their genius is not appreciated and so they leak and back […]
Of Teddy Bears and Cartoons
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Here we go again. Thousands of Sudanese Muslims took to the street last week to threaten death to a British schoolteacher in Khartoum.
Holy Wisdom
Why the Pope should call for the return of the Hagia Sophia by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers Many in the West are congratulating Pope Benedict XVI’s recent trip to Turkey, where in the Blue Mosque he prayed facing Mecca and made other gestures meant to salve the wounds raised by his references to Islam’s […]
Revisionism and the Iranian Non-Bomb
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner The latest news from Iran about the supposed abandonment in 2003 of the effort to produce a Bomb — if even remotely accurate — presents somewhat of a dilemma for liberal Democrats.
A Few Good People
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services In the last few years, it has become popular to say that history is determined largely by sweeping inanimate forces of technology, the environment, gender, class or race. We play down the role of individuals — as if the notion that one person can shape history is old-fashioned. […]
The Looking-Glass War in Iraq
For the war, then against it, and now for it? by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online We can learn a lot about ourselves from the looking glass of Iraq.
Epistle to the Muslims
Christian leaders abase themselves before Islam by Bruce S. Thornton City Journal On November 18, the New York Times ran a full-page ad entitled “A Christian Response to A Common Word Between Us and You.”
Soft Neocons
With Iraq improving, will Neocon ideas return? by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services More than seven months ago, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., claimed that Iraq was “lost.”
Ideology Trumps Truth on Campus
The doors are open for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but closed for Larry Summers by Bruce S. Thornton City Journal Many observers noted that Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s recent visit to Columbia University took place at about the same time that the University of California at Davis canceled a speaking appearance by former Harvard president Lawrence Summers, […]
The Bateman Files – Case Closed
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media I was once more under-whelmed by Mr. Bateman’s fourth and final attack on Carnage and Culture.