Spain's Surrender (Victor Davis Hanson dissects Spains captiualition)

FrontPage Magazine ^ | March 18, 2003 | Jamie Glazov with Victor Davis Hanson

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FYI

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from overpressure.com:

Following the Spanish example


If during the next elections in France we fly some B-52's over and bomb the trainyards of Paris, will they swing our way? Just wondering.

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is that link mistyped or is there a problem with their website? I checked www.frontpagemag.com just to be sure and it appears that the site might be down.

[Cobra64]

"Perhaps a very quiet, very professional downsizing of all our troops from the Mediterranean would send a powerful message toour allies that our alliance is based on friendship and mutual sacrifice, and does not rest in perpetuity, but only as long as there is a group effort to combat a common threat. Those circumstances simply no longer exist."

I like the way this guy thinks; since I've been saying this for the last 12 years.

[Britton J Wingfield]

VDH has a regular column on NationalReview.com and is an absolute treasure.

[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]

If you want to bookmark his articles discussed at FR: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/k-victordavishanson/browse

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

His blog: http://victorhanson.com/index.html

Yes, he is listened by the Bush Administration; they like him maybe as much as we do: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1085464/posts?page=6#6

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vbmoneyspender wrote: is that link mistyped or is there a problem with their website? I checked www.frontpagemag.com just to be sure and it appears that the site might be down.

I just tested the link and it works properly and points directly to the article.

Heres another link:

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=12632

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Interesting. I was on my unix box trying to follow that link using netscape and it wasn't working. When I shifted over to my windows box and used IE -- it worked. I guess their server doesn't like netscape http headers generated on unix boxes.

[Tolik]

Thank you very much.

BUMP!!!

[ozaukeemom]

Thought you would enjoy reading this.
Also, happy birthday!

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vbmoneyspender wrote: Interesting. I was on my unix box trying to follow that link using netscape and it wasn't working. When I shifted over to my windows box and used IE -- it worked. I guess their server doesn't like netscape http headers generated on unix boxes.

The browser I use is Safari on a Mac G-5 with a Unix-based OS (Panther 10.3.3), and it opens FrontPage just fine.

Maybe it's Netscape.

[CatoRenasci]

Money Quote:

As for Spain — and I say this with real remorse given their suffering and national catastrophe — not since Theodosius and the late Romans paid their annual bribe money to Attila have we seen such success in bullying and terrifying a Western nation. It is right off the pages of Gibbon in his discussion of how weak, wealthy, and fearful Westerners paid Goths and Huns before Adrianople and Chalons. And this is the beginning not the end of it, as we shall soon see.

Erudition bump! These Europeans blast Americans for not knowing history, but they have forgotten the lessons chronicled by their very own historians. Gibbon, indeed!

Remember the Maine, to Hell with Spain

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Paella-eating Surrender Monkeys!

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The Axis of Weasels was much too kind a term.

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"The fact is that since 9-11 those who have saved this culture--Army Rangers sleeping in the Afghan Mts., marines in the Sunni Triangle, millions of ordinary Americans who cleaned tables and poured cement, tough policy makers who endured terrible invective like a Puall Wolfowitz or Don Rumsfeld, and of course the President himself did so through skills other than verbage. Thank god for all of them in this hour of crisis."

Amen!

[PsyOp]

For years I thought that "The Running of The Bulls" in Pampalona was a show of Spanish bravery. Turns out they were just practicing to turn tail and run away.

[Dark Wing]

ping

[Mamzelle]

re: this idea that bin Laden knows far better than we the true nature of the Spanish citizenry. )))

Well, Hanson ought to remember that OBL thought that America hadn't the resolve to fight back either, based on OBL's long experience with Clinton and the Somalia Black Hawk incident.

In that instance, it wasn't the grassroots, as VH discusses in re Alspania, but the elites (the Clinton admin).