A World Wonder: Part I

A Speech Given to the Woodrow Wilson Center on Democracy by Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers This is a written transcript of recorded remarks given on June 2, 2005 at the Woodrow Wilson Center and made available to Private Papers by the Center.Click here to read an introduction by John Sitilides, Chairman, Board of Advisors, Southeast Europe Project Wilson Council.

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Real Lesson of Vietnam

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Under fire, the president addressed the nation Tuesday night to reassure the American people that, for all the depressing news of bombings and death, we are winning the war and a free, democratic Iraq is key to Middle East salvation. Share This

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American Zen

Finessing our supposed friends and enemies. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online While the world debated whether an American guard at Guantanamo really flushed a Koran down a toilet, Robert Mugabe may have bulldozed the homes of 1.5 million Zimbabweans. Share This

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Korea: Our Bad and Worse Choices

by Victor Davis Hanson American Enterprise Institute Magazine The North Korean crisis offers only bad and worse choices for the United States. Kim Jong Il cultivates an air of lunacy, and threatens to nuke the Western critics who are more concerned with the plight of his North Korean people than he is. Share This

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Hitler, Hitler, Everwhere

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) was not alone when he recently compared American behavior at Guantanamo Bay to that of “Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime – Pol Pot or others – that had no concern for human beings.” Share This

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The Politics of American Wars

How fascists became the “victims” in the current war. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online For all the talk of imperial America, and our frequent “police actions,” we are hardly militarists. Protected by two-oceans, and founded on the principles of non-interference in Europe’s bloody internecine wars, the United States has always been rightly circumspect

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Are They in the Army Now?

Cries of shortfall, exhaustion, and overstretch by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Magazine Figures on U.S. military recruitment just released for 2005 show that the Army missed its monthly announced goal, achieving only 75 percent of its anticipated enlistments for this May. Share This

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