So Long to All That
Why the old world of bases, alliances, and NATO is now coming to an end. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online John Le Carre and Harold Pinter tell us that we are the enemy. Gerhard Schroeder wins an election only through anti-Americanism. French diplomats warn us not to consider a conniving Saddam Hussein out […]
Revolutionary
The president and his elements. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The State of the Union address was understated, but it was still quite a revolutionary sort of speech (“free people will set the course of history”).
“Evil Over Good”
The wages of dead-end logic. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online We are on the eve of a controversial war in the Middle East.
Another Wartime SOTU
Some elements for presidential addressing by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Everyone advises the president to spell out in detail the case for war with Iraq.
‘Bomb Texas’
The psychological roots of anti-Americanism. by Victor Davis Hanson WSJ Opinion Journal With this past autumn’s discussion in Washington over what to do about Iraq there arrived also the season of protests.
The Lessons of Wellington
by Victor Davis Hanson New Criterion Perhaps with the exception of Churchill, England has produced no more a remarkable man of action than the Duke of Wellington, who put an end to the Napoleonic Wars at Waterloo–nearly six million dead and twenty-three years after France’s mad genius first declared war against Austria in 1792.
“I Love Iraq, Bomb Texas”.
by Victor Davis Hanson American Jewish Committee With this autumn’s discussion in Washington over what to do about Iraq there arrived also the season of protests.
A Funny Sort of Empire
Are Americans really so imperial? by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online It is popular now to talk of the American “empire.” In Europe particularly there are comparisons of Mr. Bush to Caesar — and worse — and invocations all sorts of pretentious poli-sci jargon like “hegemon,” “imperium,” and “subject states,” along with neologisms like […]
Baghgrad?
Removing Saddam from Baghdad. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Like Hitler, Saddam Hussein has shown flashes of strategic caginess — in summer 1990 gobbling up Kuwait and threatening Saudi Arabia before perplexed diplomats realized what he was really up to.
Perils of ‘The German Way’
What do these recent outbursts mean? by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Magazine The problem with the recent German criticism of President Bush was not Chancellor Schroeder’s willingness to voice unease with the purported American “adventure” in Iraq.
A Funny Morality
North Korea as a metaphor of the times by Victor Davis Hanson The Claremont Institute The disclosures of North Korean duplicity in acquiring nuclear weapons were disturbing for a variety of reasons, involving more than our national security.
Voices in the Wilderness
Versus the age-old sirens of appeasement by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Listening to the administration make the case for preemptive action brought reminders of similarly exasperated leaders of the past.
The Strangest of Times: A Perplexing World Stage
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Skeptics cite a number of hypothetical disasters that might befall the United States should we attack Iraq.
Goodbye to Europe?
by Victor Davis Hanson American Jewish Committee In the aftermath of the catastrophe that struck the United States last September 11, few things can have been more dismaying to Americans than the attitude adopted by many of our closest European allies, whose sympathy for the loss of life was quickly replaced by skepticism, if not […]
An Aroused Citizenry
How democracies go to war. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Magazine We associate democracies with peace, and thus think that it is hard to convince thousands of free citizens to support a war.
Iraq Redux: Not Another 1991 Gulf War
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Skeptics warn us that we cannot assume that the next war with Saddam Hussein will be as easy as the last — especially since this time we are after his head, not the liberation of Kuwait.
One Year Later
The nature and means of commemoration. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Magazine September 11 aroused Americans from a deep coma induced by a long and luxurious calm.
Martial Art
Book Review of Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime by Victor Davis Hanson American Jewish Committee Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime by Eliot A. Cohen Free Press. 320 pp. $25.00
The Wisdom of Inaction
Being wrong means never having to say you’re sorry. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online I. Gulf War #I — Summer 1990 Iraq has never attacked the United States. Countries in Africa are invaded all the time — so what could be so special about a border dispute with Kuwait?
It’s a Vision Thing
Language is as powerful as armed force. Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online War takes a toll on democratic leaders, often either discrediting, sickening, or killing them.