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Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Private Papers<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Traditionalist and conservative America once was the U.S. military\u2019s greatest defender.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bipartisan conservatives in Congress ensured generous Pentagon budgets. Statistics of those killed in action, in both Afghanistan and Iraq, reveal that white males, especially those of the rural and middle classes, were demographically \u201coverrepresented\u201d in offering the ultimate sacrifice to their country.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When generals, active and retired, have become controversial, usually conservative America could be counted on to stick with them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Private Papers Traditionalist and conservative America once was the U.S. military\u2019s greatest defender.   Bipartisan conservatives in Congress ensured generous Pentagon budgets. Statistics of those killed in action, in both Afghanistan and Iraq, reveal that white males, especially those of the rural and middle classes, were demographically \u201coverrepresented\u201d in offering the ultimate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3ye","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10864,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-great-experiment\/","url_meta":{"origin":13654,"position":0},"title":"The Great Experiment","author":"victorhanson","date":"January 6, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson\/\/ National Review \u00a0 We\u2019ve gone from hard left, under Obama, to hard right, under Trump. 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