How are we doing? by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The United States can usually win even postmodern wars abroad if it can play to its strengths — which are marshaling our enormous material, intelligence, and technological advantages to defeat the enemy before he inflicts enough casualties to convince an affluent and comfortable public […]
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by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Sixty-three years ago this week, we landed on the Normandy beaches. As on each anniversary of June 6, 1944, much has been written to commemorate the bravery and competence of the victorious Anglo-American forces. Share This
It’s a different world. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The fitting geological metaphor for the so-called G-8 meeting in Germany is not a summit, but a precipice — as the world’s leaders scramble around to grab something before one of them falls into the abyss. Share This
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Thousands of aliens crossing our 2,000-mile border from an impoverished Mexico reflect a much larger global one-way traffic problem. Share This
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by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services The suicide-murders and roadside bombs in Iraq and Afghanistan sicken Americans. Soon-to-be nuclear Iran seems loonier than nuclear North Korea. American debt keeps piling up in China and Japan. And we think of angry Venezuela, the Middle East and Russia every time we fill up — if we
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What is the real scandal in the World Bank? by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers The departure of Paul Wolfowitz from the World Bank has nothing to do with his alleged misdeeds. Share This
This is a baffling sort of “containment” we’re seeing. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online May was another normal month in the war against Islamism. At home, a delusional Rosie O’Donnell was back at it. Share This
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by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services What do leftist, mostly secular elites share with medieval sinners? They feel bad that the way they live sometimes doesn’t quite match their professed dogma. Share This
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Zawahiri invokes the language of social justice. by Raymond Ibrahim National Review Online In an unprecedented effort to rally popular support, al Qaeda is apparently trying to refashion its image from an ultra-conservative, radical Islamist group with clear and precise goals — the ultimate being to implement sharia law around the globe — to what the liberal
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by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online They didn’t ask necessarily for this war; but nevertheless our soldiers and officer corps brilliantly defeated Saddam Hussein in three weeks under the strict parameters set by political leaders. Share This
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