The Wisdom of Inaction

Being wrong means never having to say you’re sorry. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online I. Gulf War #I — Summer 1990 Iraq has never attacked the United States. Countries in Africa are invaded all the time — so what could be so special about a border dispute with Kuwait? Share This

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So Far, So Good?

Where are all the purported American blunders? by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online It is hard to fathom why the United States has been the subject of such vituperation from Europe and the purported moderate Middle Eastern states. September 11 marked the worst attack on American home soil in the nation’s entire history —

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Soldiers of Contrasts

Eisenhower: A Soldier’s Life by Carlo D’Este (Henry Holt, 672 pp., $35) by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Magazine Carlo D’Este, a well-respected historian of the U.S. Army’s battles in Europe during World War II and the author of an engaging and sympathetic biography of Gen. George S. Patton, has now written a massive narrative of

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The Parable of the Weed

Attacking terrorism at its roots. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online My grandfather, a lifelong viticulturalist, used to sigh that the great plague of his life — besides banks, shippers, and packers — was johnsongrass (holcus halepensis). Share This

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European Morality?

We should look at what our alies do rather than say. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The United States once again is at odds with Europe and our closest allies. Share This

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A Royal Pain

With friends like the Saudia, who needs enemies? by Victor Davis Hanson WSJ Opinion Journal Online Even if we were not attempting to prosecute a war against terror, the time would have long since arrived to reconsider our relations with Saudi Arabia. Share This

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A Ray of Arab Candor

A U.N. report by Middle-Eastern intellectuals blames Arab culture and Arab tyranny for Arab problems. by Victor Davis Hanson City Journal The just-released Arab Human Development Report, commissioned by the United Nations and drafted by a group of Middle Eastern intellectuals, utterly confirms the deep pathology gripping the Arab world that Western analysts have long noted. Share

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Our Enemies, the Saudis

United States relations with Saudi Arabia by Victor Davis Hanson American Jewish Committee Even if we were not attempting to prosecute a war against terror, the time would have long since arrived to reconsider our relations with Saudi Arabia. Share This

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