by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
After our victory in Afghanistan, the president’s approval ratings soared, only to descend during the acrimony leading up to the March invasion of Iraq. But after the three-week war, somewhere between 60 and 70 percent of these same Americans purportedly returned to their earlier support of the president’s initiatives. Continue reading “Our Reptilian Brains”
by Victor Davis Hanson
WSJ, Opinion Journal May 10, 2004
Imagine a different Nov. 4, 1979, in Tehran. Shortly after Iranian terrorists storm the American Embassy and take some 90 American hostages, President Carter announces that Islamic fundamentalism is not a legitimate response to the excess of the shah but a new and dangerous fascism that threatens all that liberal society holds dear. Continue reading “The Wages of Appeasement”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Private Papers
General William Tecumseh Sherman–a quirky, difficult, and much misunderstood man–deserves a place on the roll call of great liberators in human history. Continue reading “A Class War”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Private Papers
The dilemma of the United States in this war is not a strategic one. After September 11 Americans jettisoned the trendy, but flawed, exegesis that Islamic fascism was an irritant only—one that could be addressed by Grand Juries, cruise missiles, “boxing” in rogue nations like Iraq and Syria, and turning to Middle Eastern “experts” to learn how colonialism, racism, and imperialism understandably had energized millions in the Middle East against the United States. Continue reading “A Mixed Report: Grading the War”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
President Bush and Secretary Rumsfeld were both asked to apologize recently for the illegal and amoral behavior of a few miscreant soldiers at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Continue reading “Season of Apologies”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Private Papers
As gas prices rise at home, scream that the war abroad was fought to steal Iraqi oil and get American hands on cheap petroleum. Talk about American imperialism and hegemony while the United States spends billions of dollars to implant democracy in Afghanistan and Iraq. Continue reading “How To Lose This War”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Have we any memory of a man in a suit and tie, nearly three years ago wading through the din and panic amid the morning rubble, assuring millions of stunned Americans that the national headquarters of their armed forces was still intact and capable of defending us after the mass murder of 3,000? Continue reading “American Cannibalism”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Private Papers
Can we stop for a moment, take a deep breath, and remember the hysteria of the last three years—and then learn something from it? Continue reading “The Wars For The West”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
The wars since September 11 have once more revealed the superiority of Western arms. Afghanistan may be 7,000 miles away, cold, high, and full of clans, warlords, and assorted folk who have historically enjoyed killing foreign interlopers for blood sport, but somehow a few thousand Americans went over there and took out the invincible Taliban in eight weeks. Continue reading “Our Weird War of War”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Wall Street Journal
Pictures of American military police humiliating and, in some cases, allegedly torturing Iraqi prisoners in Saddam’s old Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad now flash across the world. Continue reading “Abu Ghraib”