by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services If Gen. David Petraeus can’t stabilize Iraq by autumn — or if Americans decide to pull out of Iraq before he gets a fair chance — expect far worse chaos eventually to follow. Share This
by Victor Davis Hanson VDH was asked to do an introduction for a new edition of E.B. Sledge’s With the Old Breed, a memoir from the Pacific theater of World War II. Share This
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., caused a stir recently when she criticized talk radio for its role in stopping the recent immigration bill. Talk radio, she lectured, “pushes people to . . . extreme views without a lot of information.” Share This
Dark predictions for a post-withdraw world. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The present Washington parlor game is to argue over the consequences of a precipitous withdrawal from Iraq. Share This
A monument to defeatism on the editorial page by Victor Davis Hanson City Journal Online On July 8, the New York Times ran an historic editorial entitled “The Road Home,” demanding an immediate American withdrawal from Iraq. It is rare that an editorial gets almost everything wrong, but “The Road Home” pulls it off. Consider, point by
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Jimmy Carter — a self-proclaimed champion of human rights and nonviolence — has called the U.S.’s unwillingness to accept the 2006 Palestinian election of the terrorists of Hamas “criminal.” Share This
by Victor Davis Hanson Real Clear Politics A common liberal complaint against the Bush administration is its supposed trampling of civil liberties. The Patriot Act, wiretaps, and Guantanamo supposedly have undermined our freedoms — or so we are warned ad nauseam by liberal watchdogs. Share This
by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers The New York Times’s Thomas Friedman is right on the mark most of the time in his analysis of the dysfunctions troubling the Muslim world and of our own failures in confronting them. Share This
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services After the utter collapse in the Senate last week of a comprehensive immigration bill, Washington insiders are blaming everyone and everything. Share This
We are in a collective Animal Farm by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online In the last two months, lunatic Islamic radicals have failed at weird mass murder plots at Fort Dix, New Jersey, and JFK Airport in New York. And now in Great Britain, more incompetent jihadists were foiled again — thanks to their