The Impossible Peace

by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers The New York Times editorial page published last Saturday a collection of short editorials on Israel ’s campaign to neutralize Hezbollah. Share This

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What Options Are Left?

Arab Nations Show No Sign of Concessions or Desire for Peace. by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services The conventional wisdom is that the United States is so tied down that it can’t do much about the rocket attacks on Israel , the blatant sponsorship of terrorists by Iran and Syria , or the Iranian nuclear program. Share This

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A Strange War

Israel is at last being given an opportunity to unload on jihadists. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Sum up the declarations of Hezbollah’s leaders, Syrian diplomats, Iranian nuts, West Bank terrorists, and Arab commentators — and this latest Middle East war seems one of the strangest in a long history of strange conflicts. Share This

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Has Bush or the World Changed?

About “Cowboy Diplomacy.” by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online There is as much relief from realists as there is disappointment from neo-Wilsonians over a perceived change in U.S. foreign policy — what Timemagazine clumsily dubbed “The End of Cowboy Diplomacy.” Share This

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Scapegoating Guantanamo

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services When President Bush arrived in Vienna last week, protestors bore “World’s No. 1 Terrorist” signs while chanting “We will, we will fight Bush.” A Harris Poll conducted prior to the president’s visit revealed that the European public thinks America is a greater global threat than either North Korea or Iran. Share This

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New World, Old Myths

A review of Charles C. Mann’s 1941: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Bruce S. Thornton Claremont Review of Books From the first moment of contact, Europeans viewed the American Indians through various mythic lenses. Share This

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Winning the Iraq Wars

All of its many fronts. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The present fighting is part of a fourth war for Iraq : Gulf War I, the twelve years of no-fly zones, the three-week war in 2003, and now the three-year-old insurrection that followed the removal of Saddam Hussein. Share This

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