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There was never in truth any evidence that the Iranian military was competent. Tehran knew and hid that truth when it began arming terrorist surrogates like Hezbollah and Hamas to do its own dirty work. Again, Iran performed pathetically (but bravely nihilist) in the Iran-Iraq War. When its ships buzzed American naval vessels in the […]

Victor Davis Hanson For nearly half a century the West has feared the lunatic theocracy in Iran. Jimmy Carter helped create the phantasma of a dangerous, unpredictable, and venomous regime. But how did such an image become entrenched in the West? Carter was humiliated in 1979–80 by his continued refusal to warn the Iranian revolutionary

Victor Davis Hanson Mexico seems clueless about the current asymmetries and the huge benefits it has been accruing at U.S. expense, as if these benefits are somehow its birthright. Currently, some $63 billion in remittances are sent to Mexico from mostly Mexican immigrants, the majority believed to be here illegally. And many of that cohort

Victor Davis Hanson When riots broke out in Los Angeles after ICE tried to serve warrants on a variety of illegal aliens, most of whom were believed to be either criminals or engaged in criminal activity, mobs assumed that we were all back to the “summer of love” that exempted violence of 2020. But, of

Victor Davis Hanson If Putin really is grinding down Ukraine and if it cannot through drones either stop him or prevent a theater-wide escalation, Ukraine might look back to history for guidance—and thus remember that the thriving Finland of today exists today only because of one man, the heroic but realistic leader Marshal Carl Gustaf