by Victor Davis Hanson // PJ Media
We all want democracy to thrive and flourish, but can it?
The Obama administration was quite pleased that the anti-democratic Mohamed Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood had come to power through a single plebiscite. That confidence required a great deal of moral blindness, both of the present and past. Continue reading “Democracy’s Dog Days”
by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online
Survey the Middle East, and there is nothing about which to be optimistic.
Iran is either fueling violence in Syria or racing toward a bomb, or both. Continue reading “The Middle East: All Bad Choices”
by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online
In Egypt the Obama administration has managed to alienate the military, secular constitutionalists, the Islamists, and the proverbial street all at once. How and why? Continue reading “Obama’s Middle East Mess”
by Victor Davis Hanson // Tribune Media Services
We may be in the era of Facebook and fracking. But 2013 is still beginning to look a lot like the cataclysmic century we just left behind.
More people probably died from the wars of the 20th century than from the battles of the prior 2,500 years combined. The bloodiest century saw the rise of fascism, Nazism, communism and jihadism. Continue reading “Back to our 20th-century future”
by Raymond Ibrahim // FrontPage Magazine
Based on a widely circulated video and statements from the Vatican, it was believed that Fr. Francois Murad, a Catholic Syrian priest, was recently beheaded in Syria.
It was not long before others “vigorously denied” the story, saying that the Christian priest was actually shot dead. And now that’s fast become the “big” news. For example, according to the Telegraph, “The footage, said to show Father Francois Murad, 49, as the victim in a brutal summary execution by foreign jihadists is likely to be an older video that bares no relation to the death of the Catholic priest. Father Murad ‘died when he was shot inside his church’ in the northern Syrian Christian village of Ghassaniyeh on June 23, three separate local sources, who did not wish to be named, told the Telegraph.” Continue reading “Syria’s Graphic Beheading Videos”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Defining Ideas
At the turn of the century, Teddy Roosevelt famously advised statesmen to “speak softly and carry a big stick.” Continue reading “Obama’s Bluster Pulpit”
by Bruce S. Thornton
Following the president’s announcement that we will provide small arms and ammunition to the rebels fighting Bashar al-Assad in Syria, Senator John McCain has intensified his drumbeat for war and demanded even more extensive U.S. involvement, particularly a no-fly zone. Continue reading “John McCain’s Syria Delusions”
by Raymond Ibrahim
The Islamic jihad against Christians in Nigeria is proving to be the most barbaric. Continue reading “Muslim Persecution of Christians: March, 2013”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Wall Street Journal
A prominent Syrian rebel commander with the nom de guerre Abu Sakkar recently appeared on YouTube cutting open the chest of a dead government soldier, pulling something out of it—the heart or perhaps a lung—and taking a bite. Continue reading “Why Some Wars Are So Savage”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
There are good reasons to go into Syria, but far better ones to stay out [1]. Continue reading “Count Me Out on Syria”
