Our Strange Foreign Policy

Are we isolationists, imperialists, or wide-eyed dreamers–or all and none? by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online For all the national angst over Afghanistan and Iraq, historians will come to appreciate that sometime after 2001 the United States embarked on a radically different, much riskier, and ultimately more humane foreign policy — one of both […]

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The Imperfect War

Liberal democracy is the good, not the perfect struggle. by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Not long ago Lt. Col. Erik Kurilla, an authentic American hero, was shot three times and wounded in Mosul, Iraq, as he led his men into a terrorist enclave. Share This

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Why We Must Stay in Iraq

by Victor Davis Hanson Washington Post Vietnam is once again in the air. Last month’s antiwar demonstrations in Crawford, Tex., have been heralded as the beginning of an antiwar movement that will take to the streets like the one of 30 years ago. Influential pundits — in the manner of a gloomy Walter Cronkite after

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Our Dog Days

August has passed, but its craziness may not have. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The Greeks believed that the rising of Sirius, the Dog Star, in August made the sun grow hot, and hence inaugurated a period when people acted a little crazy — as we ourselves all saw the past few weeks.

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Right Strategy Again

Gaza pullout will turn terror morass to conventional standoff. by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services “Brilliant tactician, lousy strategist.” So goes the conventional wisdom about the old bulldozer Ariel Sharon. Share This

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The Paranoid Style

Iraq: Where socialists and anarchists join in with racialists and paleocons. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online It is becoming nearly impossible to sort the extreme rhetoric of the antiwar Left from that of the fringe paleo-Right. Both see the Iraqi war through the same lenses: the American effort is bound to fail and

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Diplomacy and Terrorism

An analysis of the radically different paths taken by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services “I supported the war, but not the aftermath” is a commonplace lament about Afghanistan and Iraq. But dealing with terrorists and fanatics is never easy. We can attest to that by looking at hotspots — Gaza, Iran and North Korea —

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The Biteback Effect

Do we even have a word to descrive the new criticism? by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Sometimes even the English language is without the right word to describe a commonplace occurrence. We don’t, for example, have a term quite like the German schadenfreude: Share This

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