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.
What the President Might Say
It is about more than just Fallujah. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online We are presently engaged in a world war for our civilization and its vision of a just and humane society. Our values will either endure this present struggle and indeed be invigorated by the ordeal, or like once great civilizations of […]
The Historical Record on Afghanistan and Iraq
What will be remembered? by Victor Davis Hanson San Francisco Chronicle In the present chaos in Iraq, of course, the war’s purpose and outcome seem clouded.
Myth or Reality?
Will Iraq work? That’s up to us. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Myth #1: America turned off its allies. According to John Kerry, due to inept American diplomacy and unilateral arrogance, the United States failed to get the Europeans and the U.N. on board for the war in Iraq. Thus, unlike in Afghanistan, […]
So Lucky To Have Them
American soldiers are as impressive abroad as we are embarrassing at home. by Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers These are not really dark times. Rather I think in some ways they are among the finest in our history. No other country would or could send its youth 7,000 miles away to end fascism, implement consensual government, and […]
Our Present Chaos
Inconsistency is the order of the day. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online For the past two years we have lamented the rise of a supposedly new doctrine of preemption — or whether the United States should hit inveterate enemies while they are still vulnerable and have not yet finalized their plans to strike […]
Finish It Or Forget It
This is a war–not terrorism, insurgency, or uprising by Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers For about a year now, a baby-faced grotesque thug, Sadr, dressed up in a cleric’s robes and backed by two or three thousand gangsters has held world-wide televised press conferences as he pompously boasted about his promised imposition of Iranian-style theocracy […]