Our enemies know us only too well. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The wars since September 11 have once more revealed the superiority of Western arms. Afghanistan may be 7,000 miles away, cold, high, and full of clans, warlords, and assorted folk who have historically enjoyed killing foreign interlopers for blood sport, but […]
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by Victor Davis Hanson Wall Street Journal Pictures of American military police humiliating and, in some cases, allegedly torturing Iraqi prisoners in Saddam’s old Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad now flash across the world. Share This
It is about more than just Fallujah. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online We are presently engaged in a world war for our civilization and its vision of a just and humane society. Our values will either endure this present struggle and indeed be invigorated by the ordeal, or like once great civilizations of
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What will be remembered? by Victor Davis Hanson San Francisco Chronicle In the present chaos in Iraq, of course, the war’s purpose and outcome seem clouded. Share This
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Will Iraq work? That’s up to us. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Myth #1: America turned off its allies. According to John Kerry, due to inept American diplomacy and unilateral arrogance, the United States failed to get the Europeans and the U.N. on board for the war in Iraq. Thus, unlike in Afghanistan,
American soldiers are as impressive abroad as we are embarrassing at home. by Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers These are not really dark times. Rather I think in some ways they are among the finest in our history. No other country would or could send its youth 7,000 miles away to end fascism, implement consensual government, and
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Inconsistency is the order of the day. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online For the past two years we have lamented the rise of a supposedly new doctrine of preemption — or whether the United States should hit inveterate enemies while they are still vulnerable and have not yet finalized their plans to strike
This is a war–not terrorism, insurgency, or uprising by Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers For about a year now, a baby-faced grotesque thug, Sadr, dressed up in a cleric’s robes and backed by two or three thousand gangsters has held world-wide televised press conferences as he pompously boasted about his promised imposition of Iranian-style theocracy
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Eating each other while our enemies smile. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online This war grows stranger here at home and abroad all the time. Despite the horrific barbarism in Fallujah and the gun-toting and killing by the Shiites, the United States is ever so steadily establishing a consensual government of sorts under impossible
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No more passes and excuses for the Middle East by Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers What are we to make of scenes from the eighth-century in Fallujah? Random murder, mutilation of the dead, dismemberment, televised gore, and pride in stringing up the charred corpses of thosewho sought to bring food to the hungry? Share This
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