Relying on oil and illegal workers’ wages leads to long-term disaster. by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Economists have long pointed out that relying on oil as a natural resource can be a long-term disaster for a developing nation. Share This

Imagine if we’d reported and opined on WWII the way we do now. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online I think Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Henry Stimson, and George Marshall conducted the Second World War brilliantly, despite “thousands of mistakes.” But I can also envision how our present intelligentsia and punditocracy would have sized up …

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by Victor Davis Hanson Real Clear Politics Listen to the present televised hysteria. Too few troops! No, too many still there! The CIA is out of control! No, it is weak and irrelevant! The Iraq mess only empowered Iran! No, its democratic experiment is the best way to undermine that neighboring theocracy. Share This

What is to be done about a nuclear Iran? by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services The debate in the U.S. over how to contend with Iran as it pursues nuclear weapons goes like this: Share This

Is the U.S. better off with the Middle East as it is now than as it was before 2001? by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online After September 11, there were only seven sovereign countries in the Middle East that posed a real danger to the policies and, in some cases, the security of the …

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by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services The thousands of illegal aliens protesting this past month have essentially been telling the American people the following: Share This