Why We Must Stay in Iraq
by Victor Davis Hanson Washington Post Vietnam is once again in the air. Last month’s antiwar demonstrations in Crawford, Tex., have been heralded as the beginning of an antiwar movement that will take to the streets like the one of 30 years ago. Influential pundits — in the manner of a gloomy Walter Cronkite after […]
Our Dog Days
August has passed, but its craziness may not have. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The Greeks believed that the rising of Sirius, the Dog Star, in August made the sun grow hot, and hence inaugurated a period when people acted a little crazy — as we ourselves all saw the past few weeks.
Right Strategy Again
Gaza pullout will turn terror morass to conventional standoff. by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services “Brilliant tactician, lousy strategist.” So goes the conventional wisdom about the old bulldozer Ariel Sharon.
The Paranoid Style
Iraq: Where socialists and anarchists join in with racialists and paleocons. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online It is becoming nearly impossible to sort the extreme rhetoric of the antiwar Left from that of the fringe paleo-Right. Both see the Iraqi war through the same lenses: the American effort is bound to fail and […]
Diplomacy and Terrorism
An analysis of the radically different paths taken by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services “I supported the war, but not the aftermath” is a commonplace lament about Afghanistan and Iraq. But dealing with terrorists and fanatics is never easy. We can attest to that by looking at hotspots — Gaza, Iran and North Korea — […]
The Biteback Effect
Do we even have a word to descrive the new criticism? by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Sometimes even the English language is without the right word to describe a commonplace occurrence. We don’t, for example, have a term quite like the German schadenfreude:
More Continental Drift?
The rationale behind a new world order by Victor Davis Hanson The American Enterprise A version of this essay appears in the current issue of The American Enterprise
Broadcasting Grief
We should remember that misery breeds anger, not wisdom. by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers The liberal media is delighted with Cindy Sheehan.
Barren Policy
Reviving guestworker program is fruitless by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Millions of people in Mexico need work. Americans have millions of jobs that we apparently won’t do ourselves. Presto! The answer to illegal immigration is obviously a lawful guest-worker program.
Keep Quiet and Listen!
The words of radical Islam speak for themselves. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online “You will find that the Jews were behind all the civil strife in this world. The Jews are behind the suffering of the nations.”
Torn Apart Over Iraq
Why do we keep fighting each other over Iraq? by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online ISOLATIONISTS Most paleocons did not support either the attack on Afghanistan or Iraq — and did not in the sincere belief it was not in the interest of the United States.
The Strange Metamorphosis of Senator Clinton
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services “I am, you know, adamantly against illegal immigrants.” Who recently blurted that out?
The Myth of Islam Busted
Review of The Myth of Islamic Tolerance: How Islamic Law Treats Non-Muslims, ed. Robert Spencer by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers One of the greatest impediments in our war against jihadist terrorism is the misinformation, half-truths, and outright lies about Islam entertained by many of our public intellectuals.
60 Years Later: Considering Hiroshima
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online For 60 years the United States has agonized over its unleashing of the world’s first nuclear weapon on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. President Harry Truman’s decision to explode an atomic bomb over an ostensible military target — the headquarters of the crack Japanese 2nd Army — led […]
Today’s Politicos Invent the Past
When references to history are totally wrong. by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services The Chicago Tribune originally ran this article with the title “The Past as today’s Politics: When references to history totally confuse the point.”
Reformation or Civil War?
The jihadists cannot be reasoned with, only defeated. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Remember how shortly after September 11 Mohammed Atta’s lawyer father sounded worried in his cozy apartment? He stammered that his son did not help engineer the deaths of 3,000 Americans.
Doublespeak Unveiled
Muslim “moderates” are true to spirit of Islam by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers As stalwart as the Bush administration has been in the current conflict with Islamic jihadists, judging from the op-ed in last Saturday’s New York Times by National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley and Homeland Security Advisor Frances Townsend, it still entertains dangerous illusions about […]
Enough is Enough
Civilization has two choices when facing jihadists. by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services After the July 7 London bombings, some in the United Kingdom wondered if the bombing was in retaliation for Britain having troops in Iraq. Perhaps, they suggested, a withdrawal, emulating the Spanish appeasement after the March 2004 bombings in Madrid, would […]
And Then They Came After Us
We’re at war. How about acting like it? by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online First the terrorists of the Middle East went after the Israelis. From 1967 we witnessed 40 years of bombers, child murdering, airline hijacking, suicide murdering, and gratuitous shooting. We in the West usually cried crocodile tears, and then came up with […]
War and the West, Then and Now: Part III
by Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers This is a transcript of a recorded talk of about 50 minutes before an audience on February 11, 2004 at the University of Oregon.