October 2009

Thoughts on the Hysteria About Afghanistan

by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Afghanistan is a messy war, but so far it has been conducted with a minimum loss of American life while achieving some important goals. Share This

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The Buck Passes Here

According to Obama’s chorus of whiners, nothing is ever his fault. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Meet the Obama whiners. “They did it” is the new administration’s credo when things go wrong. Share This

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Change and Hope

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The Olympic Fiasco I think most Americans were rooting for Chicago. As I wrote on NRO’s corner, I know I was. Share This

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A Troubling Policy on Iran

by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Chickens Roosting Where to begin with the “surprise” announcement of a second, previously undisclosed “nuclear facility”? Some thoughts: Share This

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The War in Afghanistan

by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Two-Front Wars — Theirs and Ours Something is not quite right about the conventional wisdom about the Afghanistan war. Share This

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Three Dangerous Stooges

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Last week, three dictators — from Iran, Libya and Venezuela — delivered lunatic hate speeches at the General Assembly of the United Nations. Share This

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Being Frank

by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner It Would Have Been Easier Just to Tell the Truth Given the recent arrests of several jihadist plotters, we can be thankful that Obama did not, as once promised in various early manifestations, end renditions, wiretaps, intercepts, and the Patriot Act (“shoddy and dangerous”). Share This

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The Obsolescence of a Slur

Criticisms of Obama are increasingly met by cries of “Racist!” Are his critics racists? by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The charge of racism has been leveled against critics of President Obama’s healthcare reform by everyone from New York Times columnists, racial activists, and Democratic legislators to senior statesmen like Jimmy Carter (“It’s a racist attitude”), …

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A PR Nightmare for the Obamas

by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner One can understand an American president’s lobbying for an American city to obtain the Olympics, but the blitz by the Obamas proved a PR nightmare. Let us count the ways: Share This

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Bitter Harvests to Come

by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Reflections on the Speech to Congress If one were to sum up the Obama speech to the joint session of Congress, it is the same old, same old formula: “I am a uniquely post-American fresh start; the era of Bush and our dreadful past is over; and because this …

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