With a Whimper
How the violence in Iraq will end. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The Western media was relatively quiet about the quite amazing news from the recent trifecta in Iraq: very little violence on election day, Sunni participation, and approval of the constitution. Those who forecasted that either the Sunnis would boycott, or that […]
The Season of Our Discontent
Party politics seems only to frustrate the citizenry. by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Americans — never more affluent or privileged — are in a gloomy mood.
An American “Debacle”?
More unjustified negativity on the war in Iraq. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online In a recent Los Angeles Times op-ed entitled “American Debacle” Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national-security adviser to President Carter, begins with:
An Honest Missive
Zawahiri boasts strategy for “victory of Islam.” by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers The website of the Director of National Intelligence just published a letterfrom Al Qaeda’s number two leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the head-terrorist in Iraq.
The First Clash of Civilization
by Victor Davis Hanson Times Literary Supplement Persian Fire: The first world empire and the battle for the West by Tom Holland (Little, Brown: 418pp.)
The Trenches of the Culture Wars
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Welcome to the trenches of the culture wars, where academic notions of political correctness, multiculturalism and cultural relativism meet the brawling American street.
The Quiet Consensus on Iraq
The more they argue, the more they sound the same. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Some 30 months after the removal of Saddam Hussein, an unspoken consensus is emerging about Iraq.
Thalatta! Thalatta!
by Victor Davis Hanson The New Criterion In spring 401 B.C., amid the detritus of the recently ended twenty-seven-year-long war between Athens and Sparta, about 13,000 Greek mercenary soldiers marched eastward in the pay of the Persian prince Cyrus the Younger. The Greeks weren’t quite sure where they were ultimately headed. Most of them at […]
Al Qaeda’s Offensive Rhetoric: What Does Al-Qaeda Ultimately Want?
by Raymond Ibrahim Private Papers Al-Qaeda has shrewdly seen to it that, along with the sword, they also employ the pen in their Holy War.
Conflicted Europe
To build confidence Europe needs to stand alone. by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services After the 2000 elections, George W. Bush became president without a majority vote. Many Europeans snickered at the sorry spectacle of the world’s oldest continuous democracy devolving into Third-World election chaos. Few critics cared to hear about the nature of […]
Saddam in 2005!
Just imagine a different Iraq… by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Saddam promises more bounties for suicide bombers in Rather interview
Ivory Cower
University presidents have lost their dignity. by Victor Davis Hanson Claremont Review of Books Whether or not you agreed with them, university presidents used to be dignified figures on the American scene.
Today’s Euro-USA Split Will Persist
by Victor Davis Hanson The American Enterprise The new chasm between Europe and the United States seems to widen still — even as transatlantic diplomats assure us that it has narrowed — despite a common heritage and a supposedly shared goal of global democracy, free markets, and defeating terrorists.
Chaos in Gaza
Abbas must defeat terrorists to avoid gangland politics. by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services After the Israelis’ recent pullout from the Gaza Strip, chaos broke out. Greenhouses that had been purchased by international agencies for future Palestinian use were ransacked by the beneficiaries. Violent fights over looted equipment escalated among squatters, the government and […]
Webchat with VDH
VDH answers questions from international on-like questioners about U.S. foreign policy [Transcript of September 21, 2005 Webchat with U.S. Department of State. This moderated chat was conducted by the U.S. State Department International Information Programs. For more information, please click U.S. Department of State’s International Information Programs] The IIP article about this chat is available in the U.S. […]
Strategy, Strategy Everywhere…
…but not a drop of memory. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online In widespread public exasperation, everyone now has the answer for Iraq, but also a strange amnesia about why we are doing what we are doing.
Sobriety Lost
How our newspapers create opinion and report it. by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers Imagine that you started receiving letters in the mail accusing your neighbor of being a child molester.
Our Media Hurricane
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Remember all of this about Hurricane Katrina?
Our Rock of Sisyphus
How goes our hard labor in Iraq? by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Where does the United States stand in its so-called global war against terror, four years after the September 11 attack? The news is both encouraging and depressing all at once.
Our Perfect Storms
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services “In peace and prosperity states and individuals have better sentiments, because they do not find themselves suddenly confronted with imperious necessities; but war takes away the easy supply of daily wants, and so proves a rough master that brings most men’s characters to a level with their fortunes.”