Language is as powerful as armed force.
Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
War takes a toll on democratic leaders, often either discrediting, sickening, or killing them. Continue reading “It’s a Vision Thing”
So Far, So Good?
Where are all the purported American blunders?
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
It is hard to fathom why the United States has been the subject of such vituperation from Europe and the purported moderate Middle Eastern states. September 11 marked the worst attack on American home soil in the nation’s entire history — a far more calamitous event than precursors for past American wars. Continue reading “So Far, So Good?”
Soldiers of Contrasts
Eisenhower: A Soldier’s Life by Carlo D’Este (Henry Holt, 672 pp., $35)
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Magazine
Carlo D’Este, a well-respected historian of the U.S. Army’s battles in Europe during World War II and the author of an engaging and sympathetic biography of Gen. George S. Patton, has now written a massive narrative of Dwight D. Eisenhower’s military career. Continue reading “Soldiers of Contrasts”
Flunking With Flying Colors: Failing the Moral Test of Our Times
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
The Middle East crisis offers the world an ethical litmus test for our generation in a variety of historic ways. Continue reading “Flunking With Flying Colors: Failing the Moral Test of Our Times”
The Parable of the Weed
Attacking terrorism at its roots.
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
My grandfather, a lifelong viticulturalist, used to sigh that the great plague of his life — besides banks, shippers, and packers — was johnsongrass (holcus halepensis). Continue reading “The Parable of the Weed”
European Morality?
We should look at what our alies do rather than say.
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
The United States once again is at odds with Europe and our closest allies. Continue reading “European Morality?”
A Royal Pain
With friends like the Saudia, who needs enemies?
by Victor Davis Hanson
WSJ Opinion Journal Online
Even if we were not attempting to prosecute a war against terror, the time would have long since arrived to reconsider our relations with Saudi Arabia. Continue reading “A Royal Pain”
A Ray of Arab Candor
A U.N. report by Middle-Eastern intellectuals blames Arab culture and Arab tyranny for Arab problems.
by Victor Davis Hanson
City Journal
The just-released Arab Human Development Report, commissioned by the United Nations and drafted by a group of Middle Eastern intellectuals, utterly confirms the deep pathology gripping the Arab world that Western analysts have long noted. Continue reading “A Ray of Arab Candor”
Our Enemies, the Saudis
United States relations with Saudi Arabia
by Victor Davis Hanson
American Jewish Committee
Even if we were not attempting to prosecute a war against terror, the time would have long since arrived to reconsider our relations with Saudi Arabia. Continue reading “Our Enemies, the Saudis”
Fortress Israel?
Something there than doesn’t love a wall.
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
President Bush’s speech outlined well enough the general parameters of peace — Israeli security, a new democratic government in Palestine without Mr. Arafat, return of most of the West Bank et al. Continue reading “Fortress Israel?”