by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Most of the criticism of the Obama administration’s foreign policy concerns the failure of “reset diplomacy,” the inability to deal with Iran or North Korea, or the sense that we are ignoring allies and appeasing enemies. Continue reading “Obama’s Undiplomacy”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Defining Ideas
Germany’s financial dominance may be worrisome, but is it a threat to European peace? Continue reading “Why NATO Still Matters”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
In the past 40 years, the United States has intervened to go after autocrats in Afghanistan, Grenada, Haiti, Iraq, Libya, Panama, Somalia, and Serbia. We have attacked by air, by land, and by a combination of both. Continue reading “Taking Out Dictators”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
The Latest Scandals
Taxes: What does it matter that Gingrich released one year of his tax records? Any candidate can prep them a year in advance. Continue reading “The 2012 Election Circus–the Acts, the Players, the Hype”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
President Obama has just ordered massive cutbacks in defense spending, eventually to total some $500 billion. There is plenty of fat in a Pentagon budget that grew after 9/11, but such slashing goes way too far. Continue reading “Defense Spending Is a ‘Shovel Ready’ Investment”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
The German Stereotype
There were lots of stories that left a lot unsaid. The Germany/EU debt imbroglio was one of them. Continue reading “The No News Stories of 2011”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
The Never-ending Day
Like millions of Americans, I did not sleep much on the night of September 11. Continue reading “Post-9/11 -Isms and -Ologies: A Look Back at a Decade”
by Bruce S. Thornton
FrontPage Magazine
World powers sometimes have to fight wars not for some material interest, but for bolstering a nation’s prestige in order to deter more dangerous aggressors. Continue reading “A Lovely Little NATO Intervention”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
President Obama has announced that America would stop attacking Col. Muammar Gadhafi’s forces in Libya. He instead hopes that others can force out Gadhafi — or that the dictator will leave through economic and diplomatic pressure. Continue reading “Did We Give Up on Libya?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Obama’s deer-in-the-headlights, finger-to-the-wind, “I can’t believe this is happening to me” initial reaction to the Mubarak implosion has eerie precedents. Continue reading “Obama’s 1979”