Middle East

Victor Davis Hanson Show

The Biden Doctrine and the Middle East

In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss the inflation optimism on the Left, anti-Israel diplomacy, our intelligence community, normalizing diplomacy in Iran, and who is really culpable for the Hamas-Israel war. Share This

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Does Iran Realize Its Own Growing Danger?

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Iran understandably believes it is riding quite high. It is flush with cash. It hints it almost has the bomb—and might use it soon. The Iranians are bragging about their new tyrannical allies like Russia and China. Iran boasts of now being the self-proclaimed leader of jihad on behalf of

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Our Post-Hamas Wreckage

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness As Hamas goes, so with it go many of the following related Western pretensions. The Passions of 9/11, Redux It has been 22 years since we saw crowds throughout the Middle East celebrating the murder of 3,000 civilians—and since newspapers had daily “idiot watch” notices of American intellectuals defending radical

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Reflections on Israel’s New Existential War

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness There have been plenty of terrorist attacks on Israel. A dozen or so conventional wars of various magnitude have been waged against the Jewish state. And more often there have been mixtures of both. Yet never have hundreds of gangs of black-clad murderers carefully planned to swarm Israel, with an

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Jenin, Istanbul and Athens

Listen to Victor Davis Hanson discuss with cohost Sami Winc the latest about the 4th of July, cocaine in the White House, no child support as reparation, and the current state of nations in the eastern Mediterranean from which he just returned. Share This

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Foreign Policy and Team Biden

Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler to look at foreign policy issues: the new political alliances of Russia, China and countries in the Middle East, the Wagner Group, and our own military missteps. Share This

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Yom Kippur War and More

Listen to Victor Davis Hanson explain the Yom Kippur War, Israel and the Arab states, and the future of Israel–cohosted by Sami Winc. Share This

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America’s Middle East Dilemma

Toppling tyrants is ineffective in the long term without years of unpopular occupation. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online Two and a half years ago, the U.S. pulled every soldier out of a mostly quiet Iraq. In the void thus created, formerly al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorists calling themselves “The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria”

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A New Obama Doctrine?

With his presidency in tailspin, Carter radically changed course. Will Obama do the same? by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online  By the beginning of 1980, Jimmy Carter was in big trouble. Almost everything he had said or done in foreign policy over the prior three years had failed — and he was running for

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