When Good News Is No News
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services There’s an old expression about war: “Victory has many fathers, while defeat is an orphan.” But in the case of Iraq, it seems the other way around. We’ve blamed many for the ordeal of the last four years, but it is the American victory in Anbar province that […]
The Fascistic Mind
A Comparison of The Al Qaeda Reader and Mein Kampf by Raymond Ibrahim National Review Online A number of book reviewers have recently pointed to the similarities between The Al Qaeda Reader and Mein Kampf. For instance, writing in the New York Observer, James Buchan notes that, “In their [al Qaeda’s] brutality and candor, their fulminations against democracy and loose morals, their obsession […]
Freedom, Even from Fear
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online A civilization is won or lost by those who fight to protect it — and judged as deserving by the gratitude offered to its soldiers by those who were saved. Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that there are now Americans in battle in the tradition of 1776, 1864, 1918, […]
The Oil Hydra
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Oil is nearly $100 a barrel. Gas may soon reach $4 a gallon. And Americans are being bitten in almost every way imaginable by this insidious oil hydra.
Dictators and Democrats
Stick with principles–not personalities by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online I don’t think many Americans would argue that the answer for the sometimes lethargic, elected Karzai government in Afghanistan should be a coup by a Pashtun warlord and his battle-hardened lieutenants.
Liberal Racism
The assault on skilled, independent, intelligent blacks by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers When Barack Obama accused Hillary Clinton of “playing the gender card,” the hypocrisy that typically defines our public discourse on race descended into the surreal.
Squaring Off: Part II
Hanson replies to criticisms of Ltc. Bateman by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media I suppose “devil” is not as bad as “pervert” or “feces”
Squaring Off
Hanson replies to criticisms of Ltc. Bateman by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media I used to have a great deal of respect for the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Please–Not Another Farm Bill
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services The House this July passed another five-year, multi-billion-dollar farm support bill. The Senate now has its own version under discussion. And we can probably expect that the compromise bill that passes will be at least the $286 billion allotted by the House.
The Old Schell Game
by Victor Davis Hanson The New Criterion A review of The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger by Jonathan Schell (Metropolitan Books, 2007, 272 pp.) During the nuclear freeze movement of the 1980s, Jonathan Schell became well known for his detailed arguments calling for global nuclear disarmament.
So Who’s Afraid of an Iranian Bomb?
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services At first glance, it would seem a straightforward thing to stop a relatively weak but volatile Iran from obtaining a nuclear bomb. It would also seem to be something a concerned world community would be actively working to do.
Hardly Turkish Delight
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner I thought (and wrote to that effect) that both the gratuitous and toothless Senate resolutions calling for the de facto trisection of Iraq, and condemnation of Turkey for the century-old Armenian holocaust were unnecessary barbs that would only inflame an already anti-American Turkey.
The Legacy of the Bush Administration?
by Victor Davis Hanson The American This article appears in the “Geopolitics” section of the recent issue of The American. By October, 15 months before his presidency would end, George Bush’s approval ratings still hovered around 30 percent.
At the Eye of the Storm in Baghdad
An interview with Col. Rick Gibbs. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online On a recent visit to Iraq, I was advised to speak with an American colonel at ground zero in the effort to secure Baghdad.
Congress’ New Role: Undermining U.S. Foreign Policy
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services The president establishes American foreign policy and is commander in chief. At least that’s what the Constitution states. Then Congress oversees the president’s policies by either granting or withholding money to carry them out — in addition to approving treaties and authorizing war.
Nobel Nobel?
Al Gore’s evangelical liberalism reconsidered. by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers Al Gore embodies a type that usually turns up in high school or university faculties, what we can call the evangelical liberal.
Hope Yet for Iraq
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Iraq for most Americans is now a toxic subject — best either ignored or largely evoked to blame someone for something in the past.
Newsworthy Reconsidered: Paris Hilton or Colonel Sean McFarland?
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Which of these two do we Americans know anything about?
Newsworthy Reconsidered: Paris Hilton or Colonel Sean McFarland?
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Which of these two do we Americans know anything about?
Charge It, America!
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services President Bush’s current approval ratings are about 32 percent. Only one in four Americans approves of the Democratic-controlled Congress.