Abbas must defeat terrorists to avoid gangland politics. by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services After the Israelis’ recent pullout from the Gaza Strip, chaos broke out. Greenhouses that had been purchased by international agencies for future Palestinian use were ransacked by the beneficiaries. Violent fights over looted equipment escalated among squatters, the government and […]
VDH answers questions from international on-like questioners about U.S. foreign policy [Transcript of September 21, 2005 Webchat with U.S. Department of State. This moderated chat was conducted by the U.S. State Department International Information Programs. For more information, please click U.S. Department of State’s International Information Programs] The IIP article about this chat is available in the U.S.
…but not a drop of memory. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online In widespread public exasperation, everyone now has the answer for Iraq, but also a strange amnesia about why we are doing what we are doing. Share This
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How our newspapers create opinion and report it. by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers Imagine that you started receiving letters in the mail accusing your neighbor of being a child molester. Share This
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Remember all of this about Hurricane Katrina? Share This
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How goes our hard labor in Iraq? by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Where does the United States stand in its so-called global war against terror, four years after the September 11 attack? The news is both encouraging and depressing all at once. Share This
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by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services “In peace and prosperity states and individuals have better sentiments, because they do not find themselves suddenly confronted with imperious necessities; but war takes away the easy supply of daily wants, and so proves a rough master that brings most men’s characters to a level with their fortunes.”
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A Review of The Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims edited by Andrew G. Bostom. by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers Four years after 9/11 the postmortem of that disaster continues to focus on the institutional failures of our intelligence agencies and government bureaucracies. Share This
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Are we isolationists, imperialists, or wide-eyed dreamers–or all and none? by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online For all the national angst over Afghanistan and Iraq, historians will come to appreciate that sometime after 2001 the United States embarked on a radically different, much riskier, and ultimately more humane foreign policy — one of both
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