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https://victorhanson.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Hanson-Logo-1.png595200by Victor Davis Hanson This column was syndicated by the Herald Tribune Co. and appeared in newspapers last weekend. This New Year, Americans should reflect on what we have accomplished in more than three years of hard war since being attacked on Sept. 11. The Taliban and Saddam Hussein are gone — but without the envisioned […]