October 2005

Why U.S. critics turn a blind eye to atrocities by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services To paraphrase the Ancient Greeks, it is easy to be moral in your sleep. Abstract ethics or soapbox lectures demanding superhuman perfection mean little without deeds. Share This

by Victor Davis Hanson New York Times As the aggregate number of American military fatalities in Iraq has crept up over the past 13 months — from 1,000 to 1,500 dead, and now to 2,000 — public support for the war has commensurately declined. Share This

by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online For good or evil, George W. Bush will have to cross the Rubicon on judicial nominations, politicized indictments, Iraq, the greater Middle East, and the constant frenzy of the Howard Dean wing of the Democratic party — and now march on his various adversaries as never before. Share …

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Wisdom from a higher-ed career by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Magazine The lament about our failed schools and universities is by now familiar. From the left, the complaint is that they are underfunded, even ignored by a shortsighted and heartless public. Share This

Critics miss the big picture on military accomplishments. by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Last week’s approval of the Iraqi constitution saw 10 million people freely vote in the Arab world’s first democracy. The jihadists cannot be entirely defeated without such a political solution. Yet Iraq’s democratic voters would never even have had an …

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From ancient Greece to modern Iraq, history shows us that fear, honor and self-interest drive hostilities between the states. by Victor Davis Hanson Los Angeles Times Modernists like to believe that we have entered an entirely new era of armed conflict. To some military thinkers, it’s the primordial nature of the terrorists’ beheadings, suicide bombings …

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How the violence in Iraq will end. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The Western media was relatively quiet about the quite amazing news from the recent trifecta in Iraq: very little violence on election day, Sunni participation, and approval of the constitution. Those who forecasted that either the Sunnis would boycott, or that …

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Party politics seems only to frustrate the citizenry. by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Americans — never more affluent or privileged — are in a gloomy mood. Share This

More unjustified negativity on the war in Iraq. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online In a recent Los Angeles Times op-ed entitled “American Debacle” Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national-security adviser to President Carter, begins with: Share This