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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National Clarity: Bush Needs to Explain the Broad Context of War

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

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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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The Israel Enigma

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services What explains most of the world’s dislike of Israel ? Share This

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The Subtexts of War

Culture, oil, and reckless dissent. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Throughout this war there are various truths generally recognized, but rarely voiced. 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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A Summer Reflection on Why America Works

by Victor Davis Hanson Real Clear Politics I was at a crowded central Sierra Nevada lake last weekend. The recreation scene there was a good example of how well the United States works as a cohesive society despite radically different public tastes. Share This

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Why the Democrats May Lose the 2008 Election

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Will President Bush’s current unpopularity translate into a Democratic recapture of either the House or Senate this fall — or a victory in the 2008 presidential election? Share This

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