The Looking-Glass War in Iraq
For the war, then against it, and now for it? by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online We can learn a lot about ourselves from the looking glass of Iraq. Share This
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November 2007
Epistle to the Muslims
Christian leaders abase themselves before Islam by Bruce S. Thornton City Journal On November 18, the New York Times ran a full-page ad entitled “A Christian Response to A Common Word Between Us and You.” Share This
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Soft Neocons
With Iraq improving, will Neocon ideas return? by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services More than seven months ago, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., claimed that Iraq was “lost.” Share This
Ideology Trumps Truth on Campus
The doors are open for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but closed for Larry Summers by Bruce S. Thornton City Journal Many observers noted that Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s recent visit to Columbia University took place at about the same time that the University of California at Davis canceled a speaking appearance by former Harvard president Lawrence Summers,
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The Bateman Files – Case Closed
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media I was once more under-whelmed by Mr. Bateman’s fourth and final attack on Carnage and Culture. Share This
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Bateman Encore
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media And on and on and on and on from the increasingly unhinged LTC Bateman…. Share This
Iraq’s Savage Ironies
Adaptability, self-critique, and persistance will prevail. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The war in Iraq — as all wars — is fraught with savage ironies. In the build-up to the invasion, anti-Americanism in Europe reached a near frenzy. Share This
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When Good News Is No News
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services There’s an old expression about war: “Victory has many fathers, while defeat is an orphan.” But in the case of Iraq, it seems the other way around. We’ve blamed many for the ordeal of the last four years, but it is the American victory in Anbar province that
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The Fascistic Mind
A Comparison of The Al Qaeda Reader and Mein Kampf by Raymond Ibrahim National Review Online A number of book reviewers have recently pointed to the similarities between The Al Qaeda Reader and Mein Kampf. For instance, writing in the New York Observer, James Buchan notes that, “In their [al Qaeda’s] brutality and candor, their fulminations against democracy and loose morals, their obsession
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Freedom, Even from Fear
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online A civilization is won or lost by those who fight to protect it — and judged as deserving by the gratitude offered to its soldiers by those who were saved. Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that there are now Americans in battle in the tradition of 1776, 1864, 1918,
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