June 2003

The American Street has sized up best the new paradoxes of foreign policy. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The events following 9/11 created an “empire” industry — millions of words written by pundits claiming that by intervening in Afghanistan and Iraq America was now a hegemon. Share This

Let us thank our soldiers on this Independence Day. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online That are we to make of the last four months? In 21 days at a cost of less than 200 fatalities, the United States military ended the 24-year reign of one of the most odious dictators in recent memory

Despair is not an option amid the present chaos. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online For about ten weeks now, the headlines of our major newspapers blare out something like the following: “Iraq Attacks Hamper U.S. Reconstruction” or “Increasing Resistance to U.S. Efforts in Iraq. Share This

Peace in the Middle East will not be won on the West Bank. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Since the time of the Greeks a hallmark of Western military practice has been the tendency to seek out an enemy, and then through superior discipline, shock, and technology, to smash him — thus obtaining