In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler examine the VP pick Tim Walz, overlooking Josh Shapiro, Iran’s choices as the Middle East heats up, Israel in a good position, UK progressives assail protestors and not the murderer they protest, and the KSM deal rescinded. Share This
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Join the news roundup with Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc: airline incident on VDH travels, Energy Secretary Granholm proves EV unfit for long distance, Biden lying on 9/11, “insurrection” (what?), New Mexico governor bans conceal and carry, and the Iranians to receive $6 billion for prisoners. Share This
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Obama’s foreign policy of appeasement has created a dangerous void in the international order. by Victor Davis Hanson // Defining Ideas The standard critique of President Obama’s foreign policy is now generally well-known—mercurial, paradoxical, and passive. “Leading from behind” seems at odds with the traditional American commitment to ensure—preferably with allies or, if need be, alone—the
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by Victor Davis Hanson // PJ Media Myth I. Conservatives opposed to bombing Syria are isolationists. Hardly. It would be better to call conservative skepticism a new Jacksonianism that is not wedded to any Pavlovian support for intervention or particular political party. Share This
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by Bruce S. Thornton // FrontPage Magazine On the eve of the 12thanniversary of the terrorist strikes on 9/11, President Obama last night addressed the nation and reprised every delusional and bankrupt internationalist idea that contributed to that disaster. The current Syrian crisis––merely the latest Middle Eastern example of Obama’s incompetence––exemplifies more thoroughly than the rest
Fifteen Minutes of Foreign Policy Malfeasance Read More »
The as now, the Arab world’s self-induced pathologies cannot be cured by American self-doubt. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online September 11, 2001, was not just a tragedy, but rather a willful act of war by radical Islamists who hate Western civilization and the American version of it in particular. They achieved, by their
On 9/11 — A Look Back, a Look Forward Read More »
From Libya to Iran, our past actions have drastically limited our current choices. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online Survey the Middle East, and there is nothing about which to be optimistic. Iran is either fueling violence in Syria or racing toward a bomb, or both. Share This
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by Raymond Ibrahim // FrontPage Magazine With the ousting of Muhammad Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, al-Qaeda has been vindicated and the terror-jihad exonerated, in the opinion of many Islamists, that is. Share This
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Closing out embassies was prudent in the short term. But what message does it send? by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online We’ve all run across the pill bug in our gardens. At the first sign of danger, the tiny paranoid crustacean suddenly turns into a ball — in hopes the danger will have passed
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