by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Much of what is written about the North Korean crisis seems to me little more than fantasy. Let us examine the mythologies. Continue reading “North Korean Mythologies”
Tag: Korea
Obama’s Hypocritic Oath
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Barack Obama has a habit of identifying a supposed crisis in collective morality, damning straw men “them” who engage in such ethical lapses, soaring with rhetorical bromides — and then, to national quiet, doing more or less the exact things he once swore were ruining the country. Continue reading “Obama’s Hypocritic Oath”
War’s Paradoxes: From Pearl Harbor to the Russian Front to the 38th Parallel
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
From time to time, I take a break from opinion writing here at Works and Days [1] and turn to history — on this occasion, I am prompted by the 71st anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Here are a few of the most common questions that I have encountered while teaching the wars of the 20th century over the last twenty years. Continue reading “War’s Paradoxes: From Pearl Harbor to the Russian Front to the 38th Parallel”
Obama’s Undiplomacy
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”
Winning Battles, Losing Wars
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Can We Still Win Wars?
Given that the United States fields the costliest, most sophisticated, and most lethal military in the history of civilization, that should be a silly question. Continue reading “Winning Battles, Losing Wars”
What We Might Remember This Memorial Day
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
The world is a better place because Adolf Hitler did not preserve his conquest of the European continent, and because the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere of Hideki Tojo and his militarists imploded at Midway, Guadalcanal, and Okinawa. Continue reading “What We Might Remember This Memorial Day”
Put Up or Shut Up: Obama’s Foreign Policy Crossroads
by Victor Davis Hanson
I don’t often agree with Pat Buchanan and am an occasional target of his magazine, but his ideas (which Peter highlighted in an earlier post on Ricochet) are at least always provocative and he is right that we need a debate on what we can afford and what not, and why we do the things we do abroad. Continue reading “Put Up or Shut Up: Obama’s Foreign Policy Crossroads”
Obama’s 1979
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”
Why America Must Defend South Korea
by Victor Davis Hanson
Ricochet.com
The Cold War is over. Why on earth should we expend American blood and treasure to defend South Korea? George Washington warned us about this kind of entanglement. Why should we expend American blood and treasure to defend South Korea? (Ricochet member Kenneth) Continue reading “Why America Must Defend South Korea”