Is There a Pattern Here or What?

by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner The jihadist symptoms of Major Hasan were ignored; General Casey lamented the possible ramifications of Hasan’s killings to the army’s diversity program; the warnings of Mr. Mutallab’s father about his son’s jihadist tendencies were ignored but the latter’s Miranda rights were not; Share This

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A Nobel, Bad Idea

President Obama’s new nuclear policy is ill-timed and ill-conceived. by Victor Davis Hanson City Journal (April 2010) President Obama has announced a new American policy concerning the use of nuclear weapons (the “Nuclear Posture Review”). Share This

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Obama’s Nuclear Naivety

The problem is not nuclear weapons per se, but who has them. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The Obama administration has celebrated its recent efforts to sign a nuclear-weapons accord with Russia and the hosting of a nuclear non-proliferation summit in Washington — all silhouetted against grandiose promises to seek the end of

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It Takes an Army

Rodney Stark argues the Crusades were defensive wars by Terry Scambray The New Oxford Review A review of God’s Battalions: The Case for the Crusades by Rodney Stark (Harper One, 2009, 260 pp.). Share This

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Tomorrow’s Wars

Massively destructive engagements may again be on the horizon. by Victor Davis Hanson City Journal (Winter 2010) Have we not seen, then, in our lifetime the end of the Western way of war?” Two decades ago, I concluded The Western Way of War with that question. Share This

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Democracy at Risk

by Raymond Ibrahim American Thinker A review of The War of Ideas: Jihadism Against Democracy by Dr. Walid Phares (Macmillen, 2007, pp. 288) first appeared inThe America Thinker under the book’s title. Share This

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