The Power To Do Good
by Victor Davis Hanson New York Post, April 25, 2004 Colossus: The Price of America’s Empire by Niall Ferguson, Penguin Press, 366 pages, $25.95
Reagan: The Legacy
by Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers Reagan’s achievement and legacy are twofold, but do not necessarily lie in either his legislative record or seminal foreign policy initiatives-although it is hard to believe few other presidents would have gone ahead with the substantial tax cuts, necessary Pershing missile deployments, the decision to fund missile defense, or […]
The New Defeatism
Are we giving up, even as we’re succeeding? by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Nothing has been quite as depressing as watching Washington and New York melt down during these past two months. History in D.C. is apparently measured by hours, not decades — and its lessons are gleaned from last night’s reruns.
Kill the Insurgents – Stop Talking
by Victor Davis Hanson The New Republic Most of the time in war, diplomatic machinations don’t create enduring realities–events on the battlefield do. After World War I, the defeated, but not humiliated, German army that surrendered in France and Belgium provided the origins for the “stab in the back” mythology that fueled Hitler’s rise to […]
The Global Stakes at Khobar
by Victor Davis Hanson The Australian The recent terrorist murdering of Westerners in Saudi Arabia had all the hallmarks of the present global war waged by al Qaeda and its sympathizers. Attack the Western presence in Saudi Arabia to force the departure of foreign experts.
Wars New and Old
Reviewed by Victor Davis Hanson Appeared in National Review Online, April 19, 2004 Surprise, Security, and the American Experience, by John Lewis Gaddis (Harvard, 160 pp., $18.95)
Why the Watchdogs Need Watching?
by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers For the media the mistreatment of the prisoners in Iraq has been like chum thrown to starving sharks.
Why the Watchdogs Need Watching?
by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers For the media the mistreatment of the prisoners in Iraq has been like chum thrown to starving sharks.
The Terrible Arithmetic
by Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers There is a certain number of Iraqi terrorists that either need to give up, reconsider their militancy, leave the country, or be killed for there to be peace and the emergence of a consensual government.
Our Reptilian Brains
When “Just Win, Baby” sadly trumps everything else. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online After our victory in Afghanistan, the president’s approval ratings soared, only to descend during the acrimony leading up to the March invasion of Iraq. But after the three-week war, somewhere between 60 and 70 percent of these same Americans purportedly […]
The Wages of Appeasement
How Jimmy Carter and academic multiculturalists helped bring us Sept. 11. by Victor Davis Hanson WSJ, Opinion Journal May 10, 2004 Imagine a different Nov. 4, 1979, in Tehran. Shortly after Iranian terrorists storm the American Embassy and take some 90 American hostages, President Carter announces that Islamic fundamentalism is not a legitimate response to the […]
A Class War
by Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers General William Tecumseh Sherman–a quirky, difficult, and much misunderstood man–deserves a place on the roll call of great liberators in human history.
A Mixed Report: Grading the War
by Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers Strategy: A The dilemma of the United States in this war is not a strategic one. After September 11 Americans jettisoned the trendy, but flawed, exegesis that Islamic fascism was an irritant only—one that could be addressed by Grand Juries, cruise missiles, “boxing” in rogue nations like Iraq and Syria, and […]
Season of Apologies
It’s time for reckless critics to own up. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online President Bush and Secretary Rumsfeld were both asked to apologize recently for the illegal and amoral behavior of a few miscreant soldiers at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
How To Lose This War
by Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers As gas prices rise at home, scream that the war abroad was fought to steal Iraqi oil and get American hands on cheap petroleum. Talk about American imperialism and hegemony while the United States spends billions of dollars to implant democracy in Afghanistan and Iraq.
American Cannibalism
We are doing to ourselves what the enemy could not. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Have we any memory of a man in a suit and tie, nearly three years ago wading through the din and panic amid the morning rubble, assuring millions of stunned Americans that the national headquarters of their armed […]
The Wars For The West
by Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers Can we stop for a moment, take a deep breath, and remember the hysteria of the last three years—and then learn something from it?
Our Weird War of War
Our enemies know us only too well. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The wars since September 11 have once more revealed the superiority of Western arms. Afghanistan may be 7,000 miles away, cold, high, and full of clans, warlords, and assorted folk who have historically enjoyed killing foreign interlopers for blood sport, but […]
Abu Ghraib
by Victor Davis Hanson Wall Street Journal Pictures of American military police humiliating and, in some cases, allegedly torturing Iraqi prisoners in Saddam’s old Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad now flash across the world.