by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner 1980 Redux We are in scary times. The horrific photos of Ambassador Stevens bring to mind memories of Mogadishu or Fallujah, and make us ask why were there not dozens, if not vastly more, Marines around him in his hour of need. By preemptively caving into radical Islam and… Continue reading Diplomacy: What Not To Do
2013: Welcome to Very, Very Scary Times
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media On the One Hand… These should not be foreboding years. The US is in the midst of a veritable energy revolution. There is a godsend of new gas and oil discoveries that will help to curtail our fiscal and foreign policy vulnerabilities — an energy bonanza despite, not because of[1],… Continue reading 2013: Welcome to Very, Very Scary Times
The First Amendment vs. Multiculturalism
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The American Left used to champion free expression. We were lectured — correctly — that the price of being repulsed by occasional crude talk and art was worth paying. Only that way could Americans ensure our daily right to criticize those with greater power and influence whom we… Continue reading The First Amendment vs. Multiculturalism
Storming Embassies, Killing Ambassadors, and ‘Smart’ Diplomacy
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The attacks on the US embassy yesterday in Cairo and the storming of the American consulate in Libya, where the US ambassador was murdered along with three staff members — and the initial official American reaction to the mayhem — are all reprehensible, each in their own way.… Continue reading Storming Embassies, Killing Ambassadors, and ‘Smart’ Diplomacy
Legal Illegal Immigration
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services President Obama recently issued an edict exempting an estimated 800,000 to 1 million illegal aliens from the consequences of federal immigration law. Ostensibly that blanket amnesty applies to those who arrived before the age of 16 and are younger than 30; who are in, or graduated from, high… Continue reading Legal Illegal Immigration
It Was the Power, Stupid!
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media I. Power — Always Was and Always Will Be In my dumber days, between 2001-2008, I used to wonder why the Left relentlessly hammered the war on terror (e.g., renditions, tribunals, predators, preventative detention, Patriot Act, intercepts, wiretaps, Guantanamo Bay) when these measures had not only proven quite useful… Continue reading It Was the Power, Stupid!