by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
On the tenth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, the back-and-forth recriminations continue, but in all the “not me” defenses, we have forgotten, over the ensuing decade, the climate of 2003 and why we invaded in the first place. The war was predicated on six suppositions. Continue reading “Why Did We Invade Iraq?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
As a senator and presidential candidate, Barack Obama said that he detested budget deficits. In 2006, when the aggregate national debt was almost $8 trillion less than today, he blasted George W. Bush’s chronic borrowing and refused to vote for upping the debt ceiling: “Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that ‘the buck stops here.'”
Continue reading “When Big Deficits Became Good”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Whether in the fights over the US debt limit or the rioting in Athens, the common global theme is not poverty in absolute terms, but more often fairness — as in having about the same amount of things as others do. Continue reading “The Global Fairness Madness”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
“Reckless Fiscal Policies”
Why did Obama only enumerate George W. Bush’s big spending as responsible for the out-of-control $14 trillion-plus debt, while not mentioning his own contribution of $5 trillion? Continue reading “St. Obama and the Debt Dragon”
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
Editor’s Note: These passages are drawn from recent articles on The Corner.
Obama’s Real Legacy
Barack Obama’s cries from the heart as a senator about the possibility of a Bush intervention in Iran being a de facto violation of the War Powers Act have been widely circulated — juxtaposed to his sophistic gymnastics about bombs over Libya not really being much more than “kinetic action” and thus exempt from the Act. Continue reading “The Evidence of a Bankrupt Populism”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
During the 2008 campaign Barack Obama ran more against lame-duck President Bush than against his Republican opponent, John McCain. Continue reading “Bush Did It! Bush Didn’t Do It!”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
The Left is terribly embarrassed about the US intervention in Libya. We have preemptively attacked an Arab Muslim nation that posed little threat to the national-security interests of the United States. Continue reading “Libya Is Not Iraq”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Almost every promise, almost every reset proclamation from Barack Obama about the struggles against, and those within, the radical Muslim world has either been withdrawn or proven bankrupt. Continue reading “A Middle East Policy in Shambles”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
By bombing Libya, President Obama has accomplished some things once thought absolutely impossible in America: Continue reading “President Obama’s Most Amazing Libyan Achievments”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
The prognosis for Libya might be better if our president cared more about it than about the NCAA. Continue reading “Our Libyan March Madness”