by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services We Americans don’t seem to worry that we owe billions of dollars to the Chinese, or that our oil hunger is enriching hostile rogue regimes, or that our annual budget deficit keeps adding to our national debt. Share This

Words take on new meanings as Israel struggles to survive. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online A “ceasefire” would occur should Hezbollah give back kidnapped Israelis and stop launching missiles; it would never follow a unilateral cessation of Israeli bombing. In fact, we will hear international calls for one only when Hezbollah’s rockets are about

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

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

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services The Bush administration should stop repeating that it is fighting the war on terror for truth, justice and the American way. Instead, the president and his staff should be blunt and explain that, since Sept. 11, it has had to choose between options that are bad or far

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