by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Most of the current acrimony over counterterrorism is stale. The debate is simply a rehash of issues that were discussed and, in fact, resolved early last decade.
Let us review them one more time. Continue reading “Beating the Dead Terrorist Horse”
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
I don’t think anyone knows quite what this administration’s anti-terrorism policy is. Last August, Obama’s counterterrorism chief, John Brennan, lambasted the Bush administration, citing “the inflammatory rhetoric, hyperbole and intellectual narrowness that has often characterized the debate over the president’s national security policies” and criticizing the conduct of counterterrorism during the eight years following 9/11. Continue reading “Who Is the Enemy?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
The Self-centered Protagonist
The blueprint of a Sophoclean or even Euripidean tragedy is pretty straightforward. A confident, cocky tragic hero for about the first 600 lines of the play exhibits unconstrained exuberance as he takes on the world. Continue reading “Obama as Greek Tragedy–Part One”
by Jamie Glazov
FrontPage Magazine
FP: Victor Davis Hanson, welcome to Frontpage Interview.
First things first, let me ask you this. Continue reading “Obama’s Tortured Rendezvous with Reality: Interview with VDH”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
In the coming year, plenty of our chickens will be coming home to roost.
Continue reading “Chickens and Their 2010 Roost”
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
Learning from Abdul Mutallab
Coming on the heels of the killing spree by Maj. Nidal Hasan at Fort Hood, the latest terrorist “incident,” involving Abdul Mutallab on Northwest Flight 253, is yet another isolated but tell-tale sign that we must learn from: Continue reading “Human IEDs”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Some Modest Obama Predictions
1) We will begin to hear, ever so insidiously, mention again of the “war on terror”; some quiet memo will go out to cool all the talk of ‘man-made disasters’ and ‘overseas contingency operations’. Continue reading “On the Horizon”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review
A review of LeMay: The Life and Wars of General Curtis LeMay by Warren Kozak (Regnery Press, 2009, 354 pp.) Continue reading “American Ajax”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
What might explain the inexplicable like the following? Continue reading “The Humpty-Dumpty View of the World”
by Victor Davis Hanson
First Things (October 2009)
A review of The Enemy at the Gate: Hapsburgs, Ottomans, and the Battle for Europe by Andrew Wheatcroft (Basic, 368 pp). Continue reading “The Summer of 1683”