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Victor Davis Hanson These anti-war protests reflect the Left’s Chaos Theory. It dictates that there is no need for a counter-agenda or a principled opposition. Instead, the strategy is to become so foul-mouthed, so repulsive, so chaotic, so disruptive, and so nutty that the proverbial American voter hears or sees the mayhem, falls into a

Victor Davis Hanson Given the administration has provided clear aims, given the war is going well, and given the world is watching in quiet glee that the odious theocracy is dissembling, why the furious hysteria here at home? Watch as communists are protesting the war with calcified hammer-and-sickle banners as if they have no clue

Victor Davis Hanson The Political Side. But military success sometimes does not ensure strategic victory, given the Clausewitzian reminder that “war is an extension/continuation of politics by other means.” America never lost a battle in Vietnam and inflicted enormous damage on the North Vietnamese, but lost the war politically. Ditto the American and Soviet experience

Victor Davis Hanson Regime Change? On March 1 and again later in the month, Trump and Rubio restated the above reasons for the bombing. Regime change was not among the stated objectives—although wiping out the top echelon of the theocratic and military apparat is a sort of regime change in and of itself. True, Trump

Victor Davis Hanson Legality. Constitutional lawyer Barack Obama was recently sounding off about an illegal war against Iran—in shameless and hypocritical fashion even for the 4-mansion owning, private-jet flying, green-community organizer. Does Obama remember that he bombed Libya for seven months without congressional authorization or even much consultation? He accomplished nothing but ensuring a wider

Victor Davis Hanson The new radical base of the Democrat party does not particularly like the existing U.S., not AOC and her Squad, not Bernie Sanders, and not the various ethnic and racial congressional caucuses. In their view, the only way to regain power is to tear down the house of us all and then