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”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
We are presently engaged in a world war for our civilization and its vision of a just and humane society. Our values will either endure this present struggle and indeed be invigorated by the ordeal, or like once great civilizations of the past we will stumble in the face of barbarism and lose all that we hold dear. Continue reading “What the President Might Say”
by Victor Davis Hanson
San Francisco Chronicle
In the present chaos in Iraq, of course, the war’s purpose and outcome seem clouded. Continue reading “The Historical Record on Afghanistan and Iraq”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Myth #1: America turned off its allies.
According to John Kerry, due to inept American diplomacy and unilateral arrogance, the United States failed to get the Europeans and the U.N. on board for the war in Iraq. Thus, unlike in Afghanistan, we find ourselves alone. Continue reading “Myth or Reality?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Private Papers
These are not really dark times. Rather I think in some ways they are among the finest in our history. No other country would or could send its youth 7,000 miles away to end fascism, implement consensual government, and adhere to its principled mission amid cynicism, cheap caricature, and increasing danger. Continue reading “So Lucky To Have Them”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
For the past two years we have lamented the rise of a supposedly new doctrine of preemption — or whether the United States should hit inveterate enemies while they are still vulnerable and have not yet finalized their plans to strike America. Continue reading “Our Present Chaos”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Private Papers
For about a year now, a baby-faced grotesque thug, Sadr, dressed up in a cleric’s robes and backed by two or three thousand gangsters has held world-wide televised press conferences as he pompously boasted about his promised imposition of Iranian-style theocracy upon 26 million other Iraqis. Continue reading “Finish It Or Forget It”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
This war grows stranger here at home and abroad all the time. Despite the horrific barbarism in Fallujah and the gun-toting and killing by the Shiites, the United States is ever so steadily establishing a consensual government of sorts under impossible conditions in Iraq. Continue reading “Western Cannibalism”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Private Papers
What are we to make of scenes from the eighth-century in Fallujah? Random murder, mutilation of the dead, dismemberment, televised gore, and pride in stringing up the charred corpses of thosewho sought to bring food to the hungry? Continue reading “The Mirror of Fallujah”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
One of the most misleading fables about this present struggle is that, since 9/11, we have squandered European good will through arrogance and our “unilateral” operations in Iraq. Continue reading “Lovin’ Europe by Leavin’”