Victor Davis Hanson Item: Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) on that propaganda news that some Iranian ships claim that they broke through the American blockade, a move intended to bankrupt the terrorist regime, the senator in response posted on social media, “Awesome.” Item: Tom Friedman, New York Times columnist, remarked in an interview that while he […]
Victor Davis Hanson The Gulf The Gulf nations of the Gulf Cooperation Council (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates) have two agendas—one stealthy and unknown to the public, and one transparent and well-recognized. That is, given their huge treasuries, their gigantic oil reserves, their vulnerable pipelines and refineries, their small
Victor Davis Hanson Iran The Iran War has (for now) transmogrified from one of military action—Iran has essentially been disarmed for the foreseeable future—to a political/geostrategic standoff. Why does Iran believe it can obtain a deal, given the U.S. devastation of the Iranian military? It knows the U.S. has no intention of invading the country,
Victor Davis Hanson Serling (who easily out-smoked my dad’s two-pack-a-day habit) was serious and answered in terse, short answers. He soon grew quiet but remained gracious and witty. He kept talking to us about politics in the car on the way over to the Reedley lecture, which my dad thought would be a blockbuster—given the
Victor Davis Hanson The only irritating element about the series (which bothered my mother to no end) was that as the crowds grew larger and the speakers more famous, and my dad as the MC more prominent (who really was in his quiet way a renaissance man: bemedaled World War II B-29 hero, farmer, football
Victor Davis Hanson In the early sixties, my father, a local community college administrator, came up with the idea of having a California Central Valley community forum/lecture series. And he was able to receive funding from Reedley College where he worked and some private and county philanthropic grants. It was entirely his own project, as
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