Dead-end Debates
Critics need to move on. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Currently, there are many retired generals appearing in frenetic fashion on television. Sometimes they hype their recent books, or, as during the three-week war, offer sharp interviews about our supposed strategic and operational blunders in Iraq — imperial hubris, too few troops, wrong […]
Back to the ’60s Barricades
by Victor Davis Hanson The American Enterprise Magazine On matters of national security, Democrats are back on their 1960s barricades. For them, the chief dangers to the United States lie not abroad but at home, within our own government — specifically unaccountable law enforcement, military, and national security establishments.
Eye of the Beholder
by Victor Davis Hanson The American Enterprise Online War-torn Iraq has about 26 million residents, a peaceful California perhaps now 35 million. The former is a violent and impoverished landscape, the latter said to be paradise on Earth. But how you envision either place to some degree depends on the eye of the beholder and […]
The Congresswoman and the Admiral
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Georgia Democratic Rep. Cynthia McKinney’s recent run-in with a security official at the nation’s Capitol reminded me of an earlier dust-up.
Collapse of a “Hyperpower”
A review of The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians by Peter Heather and The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization by Bryan Ward-Perkins. by Victor Davis Hanson The New Criterion After September 11 and the acrimonious war in Iraq, America was castigated as the world’s sole “empire,” “hegemon,” or […]
Has Ahamadinejad Miscalculated?
The Iranian president better sober up and do some cool reckoning. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online We are now acquainted with the familiar scenario: Iran is supposedly poised to become another disaster like Iraq. The United States, bruised in Iraq, needs redemption, and so will either press onto Teheran in its vainglorious imperial […]
Assimilation Is the Real Debate
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Hypocrisy and paradoxes abound when it comes to illegal immigration. Even the fiercest critics of illegal immigrants in the American Southwest never seem to check first the legal status of those who fix their roofs, mow their lawns or wash their dishes.
Words and Deeds
How the Left cants. by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers A review of Peter Schweitzer’s Do as I Say (Not as I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy, (Doubleday, 2005, 272 pp.)
Protesters Run Amok
The backlash on immigration law may be yet to come. by Victor Davis Hanson Real Clear Politics [This article appeared as “The Protests — Whose Backlash?” in realclearpolitics.com] Hundreds of thousands of Mexican citizens, along with Mexican-Americans and Hispanics in general, hit the streets throughout the United States this past week in one of the largest […]
When Cynicism Meets Fantacism
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Opponents of the war in Iraq, both original critics and the mea culpa recent converts, have made eight assumptions. The first six are wrong, the last two still unsettled.
This Old House
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services I live in a central California farmhouse built by my great-great-grandmother in the 1870s. But if the clapboard house looks more or less unchanged from its earliest photographs taken in the 1920s, the world down the road is unrecognizable.
Fighting Words
The definitive books on the battles of the 20th century. by Victor Davis Hanson WSJ Opinion Journal 1. “The Price of Glory” by Alistair Horne (St. Martin’s, 1963). Over the course of 10 months in 1916, the French and Germans killed or wounded about 1.25 million of their best soldiers in a few wooded acres […]
Hard Pounding
Who will keep his nerve? by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online If I could sum up the new orthodoxy about Iraq, it might run something like the following: “I supported the overthrow of the odious Saddam Hussein.
A Port Postmortem
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services In retrospect, America went collectively insane over the possibility that a company owned by Dubai’s government would operate several of our ports.
Teflon Europe
They’re just as bad as we are, online worse. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The prison at Guantanamo Bay was designed to interrogate terrorists and jihadists swept up from the battlefield: the idea was to keep them as prisoners of war in a war that was undeclared, and as enemy combatants without uniforms […]
Nothing Nuanced
Academic “diversity” speak gives pass to jihad, anti-Semitism and censorship. by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers Hats off to the UC Riverside College Republicans. They recently hosted a program that contrasted the sort of vile anti-Semitic slander that saturates the Muslim media, with the cartoons of Mohammed that sparked riots throughout with Muslim world.
The Lost Art
The apology used to show character. by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Americans have lost the art of saying “I am sorry.” Take outgoing Harvard President Larry Summers, who in the past year has apologized repeatedly. His crime? Saying that institutionalized bias might not completely explain the dearth of female scientists and mathematicians on […]
Why We Don’t Fight
A Review of Eugene Jarecki’s Why We Fight by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Magazine [This review of Eugene’s Jarecki’s recent Why We Fight recently appeared in National Review Magazine.]
The Great Stampede
Conservatives are losing their nerve on Iraq. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online In recent weeks prominent conservatives — William F. Buckley, Niall Ferguson, Francis Fukuyama, George Will, to a name only a very few — have, in various ways, suggested that the war in Iraq was either a mistake or unwinnable, or both.
Americans Shouldn’t Always Wish To Be Liked
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services When the golden dome of the Askariya shrine, a holy Shiite site in Iraq, was blown up last week, enraged militias did not attack American bases but rather went after Sunni extremists who, they privately believed, were the real culprits.