October 2005

An Honest Missive

Zawahiri boasts strategy for “victory of Islam.” by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers The website of the Director of National Intelligence just published a letterfrom Al Qaeda’s number two leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the head-terrorist in Iraq. Share This

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The First Clash of Civilization

by Victor Davis Hanson Times Literary Supplement Persian Fire: The first world empire and the battle for the West by Tom Holland (Little, Brown: 418pp.) Share This

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The Trenches of the Culture Wars

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Welcome to the trenches of the culture wars, where academic notions of political correctness, multiculturalism and cultural relativism meet the brawling American street. Share This

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The Quiet Consensus on Iraq

The more they argue, the more they sound the same. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Some 30 months after the removal of Saddam Hussein, an unspoken consensus is emerging about Iraq. Share This

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Thalatta! Thalatta!

by Victor Davis Hanson The New Criterion In spring 401 B.C., amid the detritus of the recently ended twenty-seven-year-long war between Athens and Sparta, about 13,000 Greek mercenary soldiers marched eastward in the pay of the Persian prince Cyrus the Younger. The Greeks weren’t quite sure where they were ultimately headed. Most of them at …

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Conflicted Europe

To build confidence Europe needs to stand alone. by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services After the 2000 elections, George W. Bush became president without a majority vote. Many Europeans snickered at the sorry spectacle of the world’s oldest continuous democracy devolving into Third-World election chaos. Few critics cared to hear about the nature of …

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