by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online For most of April and early May, the world’s attention was glued on Jenin as the Israeli Defense Forces sent an armored column and accompanying infantrymen to root out suspected terrorists and their apparatus of suicide bombing. Share This
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September 11 reminded us that this country is exceptional. How to we teach that to our kids? by Victor Davis Hanson City Journal All countries seek to inculcate their youth with values that reflect and enhance their national culture—sometimes with horrific results, such as the goose-stepping Hitler Youth or head-nodding madrassas in the Middle East. Share This
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A Review of Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Michael B. Oren Oxford. 419 pp. $30.00 Share This
Why the war on terror is not the Cold War. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online For much of the 1990s the autocrats of the former Yugoslavia seized control of the fragmenting country and initiated an ethnically inspired bloodbath. Share This
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A Memorial Day tale about a few very good men. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Yesterday, our rural mail carrier delivered to our farm a ring in a small box — of worn metal, its band cut in half, with a strange signet inset of a Roman legionary. Share This
A glimmer of hope along the Kabul/Palestine/Baghdad Axis. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online In the Greek myth of Pandora’s Box, after the naïve young girl (named “All the Gifts”) opens the forbidden lid, and a host of evils flies out to plague the world — hope alone is left behind to counterbalance the
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by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online American professors have long lectured to our students about purported Western biases and cruel misconceptions toward the “Other.” Share This
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No matter the era, no mater the weapons, the same old hell. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Magazine War is eternal. It is part of the human condition; it is, as Heraclitus wrote, “the father of us all.” Share This
The landscape of the current war is especially bleak. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Since 9/11 there continues to come a swirl of bizarre images of this conflict — military, political, and cultural. In their aggregate, these symbols finally overwhelm the senses and lead to a profound sense of despair — if also
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Frightening extremist rhetoric from America’s critics. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Watching televised clips from a recent pro-Palestinian rally in Washington, along with other such demonstrations over the last few weeks, can be a chilling experience. Share This