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

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.”

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

Liberal democracy is the good, not the perfect struggle. by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Not long ago Lt. Col. Erik Kurilla, an authentic American hero, was shot three times and wounded in Mosul, Iraq, as he led his men into a terrorist enclave. Share This

by Victor Davis Hanson Washington Post Vietnam is once again in the air. Last month’s antiwar demonstrations in Crawford, Tex., have been heralded as the beginning of an antiwar movement that will take to the streets like the one of 30 years ago. Influential pundits — in the manner of a gloomy Walter Cronkite after

August has passed, but its craziness may not have. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The Greeks believed that the rising of Sirius, the Dog Star, in August made the sun grow hot, and hence inaugurated a period when people acted a little crazy — as we ourselves all saw the past few weeks.