How Oil Lubricates Our Enemies

by Victor Davis Hanson The American Enterprise Online With the collapse of the Soviet Union, Marxism was discredited as an unworkable — and often murderous — alternative to consumer capitalism. Eastern Europe was freed and began to prosper in a manner unimaginable just a decade earlier. Share This

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Vietnam, After All?

Formulaic warfare. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online As with the formulaic type scenes of Homeric epic, there now arises a sense of familiarity with the current outcries over Haditha. Share This

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Refighting the War

by Victor Davis Hanson Commentary Magazine Ten years ago, Michael R. Gordon of the New York Times and the retired General Bernard Trainor wrote a critically acclaimed revisionist history of the first Gulf war. Share This

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Endless Summer?

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services The European countryside is as beautiful as ever. Hotels in the cities are as packed as they are high-priced. Tourists fill Rome. The same bustle is evident from Lisbon to Frankfurt. Everywhere European stewards welcome in millions of sightseers to enjoy the treasures of Western civilization. Never has

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The American Way of War

And the constraints on American power. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The Alternative to Punitive War The nature of American military power in our age is defined by how it is constrained — through nuclear deterrence, political realities, and cost/benefit analysis. Share This

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Lying, Defying and Demoralizing

OBL’s three-fold strategy to defeat the West by Raymond Ibrahim Private Papers Like all of Osama bin Laden’s previous messages to the West, his most recent communiqué contains three Ladenese trademarks — lying, defying, and demoralizing — that are always present whenever the al Qaeda chieftain addresses the West. Share This

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The New World of Immigration

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services In the dark of these rural spring mornings, I see full vans of Mexican laborers speeding by my farmhouse on their way to the western side of California’s San Joaquin Valley to do the backbreaking work of weeding cotton, thinning tree fruit and picking strawberries. Share This

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Looking Back at Iraq.

A war to be proud of. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online There may be a lot to regret about the past policy of the United States in the Middle East, but the removal of Saddam Hussein and the effort to birth democracy in his place is surely not one of them. And we

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