Victor David Hanson: The Same Old Thing--Our Augean stables are 30 years old.

National Review ^ | 1-9-04 | Victor David Hanson:

[sauropod]

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[bassmaner]

Excellent analysis, as always, from VDH.

[headsonpikes]

Bump.

[FreedomPoster]

Can one of you folks remind me who's got the VDH ping list? Is it one of you? Suffering from CRS here.

VDH should be required reading at the highest levels in the Administration. Especially at State.

[Tolik]

Victor Davis Hanson moral clarity huge BUMP  [please freepmail me if you want or don't want to be pinged to Victor Davis Hanson articles]

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His NRO archive: http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson-archive.asp

[Cincinatus]

So let the waters wash on through the stables of our corruption.

...and let the Clintonista horse-droppings contained therein flow gently into their sweet, richly-deserved oblivion.

[metesky]

And yet, due solely to the courage and skill of an amazing generation of American professional soldiers battling in Iraq and Afghanistan, we are winning — as this difficult war is beginning to resemble 1944 far more than 1939.

VDH bump.

[Tolik]

The world is long tired of the juvenile "We hate you — let us in" and "Destroy the Zionist entity — but let me earn some cash there first."

Excellent fraise. BUT, I think "the world" is buying this crap, its Americans who don't believe it.

[americanSoul]

Yes, ping me to VDH articles, just in case I miss some on my own.
Thanks.

[Paleo Conservative]

Yet despite the decline of these Soviet-created tyrants, the political system of the Middle East ? hereditary autocracy ? is unchanged from thirty years ago.

Hell, it's unchanged from a thousand years ago.

[MEG33]

He blew the "squandered good will" out of the water.He gave a great swipe at Teddy,too!

[Akira]

Excellent article, thanks for posting.

[Akira]

VDH should be required reading at the highest levels in the Administration. Especially at State.

Cheney is reportedly a huge fan, and has invited VDH to speak to members of the administration. I'm sure it all falls on deaf ears at State, they have no interest for the painful truth.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

We must continue hacking away the terrorist Hydra in the Sunni Triangle, and hope that the ongoing cultural, economic, and military fallout from Iraq begins to erode fascism and theocracy in Syria and Iran faster than such nearby pathologies can ruin us in Iraq. We are in a race for civilization like none other since World War II. And yet, due solely to the courage and skill of an amazing generation of American professional soldiers battling in Iraq and Afghanistan, we are winning — as this difficult war is beginning to resemble 1944 far more than 1939.

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VDH, perspective, ping! U.S., 1973 "unilateral" defense of our Democratic ally, Israel...and the players then: France, Germany, Soviet Union, Ted Kennedy...and now.
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[Taliesan]

Hanson bump.

[Coop]

Excellent read!

[Tolik]

Absolutely. I would not want to miss out myself.

[Tolik]

Great news. VDH expresses the views of a large part of American population like practically nobody else.
In regards of the State Department I have one word solution: Newt.