by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
We’ve come a long way from the 2003 British lectures about American obtrusive Ray-Bans and Kevlar losing what British soft hats and smiles had won. Continue reading “Anglo-American Alliance?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Critics of the U.S. troop “surge” in Iraq, called for by President George Bush in January, early on cited American losses and then announced the plan’s failure. Supporters, on the other hand, have seen progress from new tactics (which, many argue, should have been adopted far earlier). Continue reading “Surging Politics”
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
The larger question that will await General Petraeus is not just the tempo of the surge per se — after all, given the efficacy of the U.S. military it can pretty much do what it wishes if it is willing to invest sufficient amounts of time, material, and manpower, and take casualties. Continue reading “Post-Surge Dialectics”
by Raymond Ibrahim
Private Papers
As a 6’3”, 250-pound weightlifter of Middle Eastern descent, who sometimes wears a full beard, seldom wears a (perfunctory) smile, and who’s last name is “Ibrahim” — a name that sometimes appears in rather “unflattering” headlines, such as the recent attacks in Glasgow — I don’t mind telling you that, well, sometimes I get askance looks of “concern” whenever I board airplanes. Continue reading “Flying Imams: John Doe Provision in Perspective”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Radical Islamists love to scream about the “decadent” West. Everything from our operas to our attitudes about women outrage these loud pious critics. Continue reading “Get a Life, Middle East”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
The latest Pew poll of June 2007 purports to offer a comprehensive survey of what the world thinks of the United States. Continue reading “Popularity Contest”
by Victor Davis Hanson
American Spectator
I. Distrusting the Military
The complex and somewhat ill-defined relationship between the military establishment and constitutional government is a subject that has made many Americans uncomfortable, especially in the modern era when the United States has assumed a leadership role in world affairs. Continue reading “Armies for Democracy–Past, Present, and Future”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
If Gen. David Petraeus can’t stabilize Iraq by autumn — or if Americans decide to pull out of Iraq before he gets a fair chance — expect far worse chaos eventually to follow. Continue reading “Back to the Future in the Middle East”
by Victor Davis Hanson
VDH was asked to do an introduction for a new edition of E.B. Sledge’s With the Old Breed, a memoir from the Pacific theater of World War II. Continue reading “Introduction to E.B. Sledge’s ‘With the Old Breed’”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., caused a stir recently when she criticized talk radio for its role in stopping the recent immigration bill. Talk radio, she lectured, “pushes people to . . . extreme views without a lot of information.” Continue reading “All’s Fair in Love and Talk Radio”