We need to get serious about keeping our enemies out. by Victor Davis Hanson City Journal In September, federal prosecutors charged illegal alien Mahmoud Maawad, 29, with wire fraud and fraudulent use of a Social Security number. Share This
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Why our new idealism is enlightened Jacksonianism. by Victor Davis Hanson Commentary Magazine According to opinion polls, most Americans are now critical of the President’s foreign policy. They are uncertain not merely over the daily fare of explosions in Iraq. Share This
Godless materialism menaces the fate of the West. by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers The past week Muslim mobs besieged Christians in Egypt, defacing six churches and threatening publicly the Coptic Church’s highest cleric. Share This
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Why U.S. critics turn a blind eye to atrocities by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services To paraphrase the Ancient Greeks, it is easy to be moral in your sleep. Abstract ethics or soapbox lectures demanding superhuman perfection mean little without deeds. Share This
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by Victor Davis Hanson New York Times As the aggregate number of American military fatalities in Iraq has crept up over the past 13 months — from 1,000 to 1,500 dead, and now to 2,000 — public support for the war has commensurately declined. Share This
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by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online For good or evil, George W. Bush will have to cross the Rubicon on judicial nominations, politicized indictments, Iraq, the greater Middle East, and the constant frenzy of the Howard Dean wing of the Democratic party — and now march on his various adversaries as never before. Share
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Americans need to muster the necessary grit to win. by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers The stories about the video of US troops burning the bodies of dead Taliban are disgusting––but not because of anything our troops may have done to the corpses of fanatical murderers. Share This
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Wisdom from a higher-ed career by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Magazine The lament about our failed schools and universities is by now familiar. From the left, the complaint is that they are underfunded, even ignored by a shortsighted and heartless public. Share This
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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