Critics miss the big picture on military accomplishments. by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Last week’s approval of the Iraqi constitution saw 10 million people freely vote in the Arab world’s first democracy. The jihadists cannot be entirely defeated without such a political solution. Yet Iraq’s democratic voters would never even have had an […]
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From ancient Greece to modern Iraq, history shows us that fear, honor and self-interest drive hostilities between the states. by Victor Davis Hanson Los Angeles Times Modernists like to believe that we have entered an entirely new era of armed conflict. To some military thinkers, it’s the primordial nature of the terrorists’ beheadings, suicide bombings
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How the violence in Iraq will end. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The Western media was relatively quiet about the quite amazing news from the recent trifecta in Iraq: very little violence on election day, Sunni participation, and approval of the constitution. Those who forecasted that either the Sunnis would boycott, or that
Party politics seems only to frustrate the citizenry. by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Americans — never more affluent or privileged — are in a gloomy mood. Share This
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More unjustified negativity on the war in Iraq. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online In a recent Los Angeles Times op-ed entitled “American Debacle” Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national-security adviser to President Carter, begins with: Share This
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Zawahiri boasts strategy for “victory of Islam.” by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers The website of the Director of National Intelligence just published a letterfrom Al Qaeda’s number two leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the head-terrorist in Iraq. Share This
by Victor Davis Hanson Times Literary Supplement Persian Fire: The first world empire and the battle for the West by Tom Holland (Little, Brown: 418pp.) Share This
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by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Welcome to the trenches of the culture wars, where academic notions of political correctness, multiculturalism and cultural relativism meet the brawling American street. Share This
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The more they argue, the more they sound the same. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Some 30 months after the removal of Saddam Hussein, an unspoken consensus is emerging about Iraq. Share This
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by Victor Davis Hanson The New Criterion In spring 401 B.C., amid the detritus of the recently ended twenty-seven-year-long war between Athens and Sparta, about 13,000 Greek mercenary soldiers marched eastward in the pay of the Persian prince Cyrus the Younger. The Greeks weren’t quite sure where they were ultimately headed. Most of them at
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