Anatomy of Iraq
How did we get to this baffling scenario? by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online It’s make it or break it in Iraq in 2007. Or so we are told, as America nears four years of costly efforts in Iraq. But how did we get to this situation, to this fury over a war once …
Democrats Disingenuous in Their Anti-war Rhetoric
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Why did a majority of Democratic Senators — such as Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Chris Dodd, John Edwards, Harry Reid, Jay Rockefeller and Chuck Schumer — vote to authorize a war with Iraq on Oct. 11, 2002? And why is this war now supposedly George Bush’s misfortune and …
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Mexifornia, Five Years Later
The flood of illegal immigrants into California has made things worse than I foresaw. by Victor Davis Hanson City Journal (Winter 2007 Issue) In the Spring 2002 issue of City Journal, I wrote an essay about growing up in the central San Joaquin Valley and witnessing firsthand, especially over the last 20 years, the ill effects of …
Casting the First Stone
How do we trust Newsweek when criticisms often depend on unnamed sources? by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online A new round of Middle East hysteria has broken out in Washington. It goes like this: Iran is not really such a serious threat; but once again we are cooking intelligence, ignoring moderates, being needlessly provocative, acting …