Victor Davis Hanson: "All Fall Down"

PJ Media ^ | 05/06/2012 | Victor Davis Hanson

[Eccl 10:2]

The temple of postmodern liberalism was rocked these last few weeks, as a number of supporting columns and buttresses simply crashed, leaving the entire edifice wobbling.

[elcid1970]

And your smartypants knickers are in a twist unless you get in the last word, so who cares what you think?

Gen. Curtis LeMay saved many thousands of lives. Ours, and plenty of Japanese too as all they had to do was get the hell out of the way as they were warned to.

[SkyDancer]

And here I thought that some people had a modicum of intelligence to understand that I was talking about VDH’s comment on LeMay, not mine. I don’t know what your problem with comprehension is.

[Eccl 10:2]

“So... How did you come up with the name, ‘Max Power’”?
“I don’t know... (shrug) ...I saw it on a hair dryer.”

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

LOL. That reminds me of one of my hare-brained money making ideas.

I live in Charlotte. Our electric utility is Duke Power.

So I was going to change my name to Duke Power, open a mailbox, and get people to send me their electric bill payments there every month.

[PGR88]

VDH’s Father was a B-29 bomber pilot (or crew - can’t remember exactly which).

[onedoug]

Great article.

[Rummyfan]

As for Imperial Japan, who really gives a damn. They deserved anything that could conceivably have been done to them. Including carpet bombing with incendiary bombs and atom bombs to boot.

Which is exactly what LeMay did and I commend him for it. The Japanese were warned. It was LeMay who figured out that our B-29s could safely operate below the Japanese flak level. Two B-29s would lay a cross-pattern of incendiaries, essentially making an 'x-marks-the-spot', and the rest of the strike had a perfect target. The fact that Japanese cities were essentially built of wood and paper helped a lot too.

Ironically, the use of atomic bombs actually saved lives in that there were less casualties from Hiroshima and Nagasaki than from the fire-bombing campaign. And that is without even considering how many Japanese civilian casualties would have resulted from a full-scale invasion of the Home Islands.

[Rummyfan]

For about three years I have been monotonously suggesting that we were once again in a 1977-1979 Carteresque era, as Obama systematically trashed his predecessor’s policies, denounced “exceptionalism” and “unilateralism,” gave soaring narcissistic sermons on his/our new morality abroad, redefined both allies and enemies as morally equivalent neutrals, and generally suggested that if you were a China, Russia, Middle East, or Latin America, you had justifiable grievances against the pre-Obama U.S., at least during the era when the president was just “three years old.”

Right now, a Carteresque Era would be an improvement!

[Rummyfan]

If I were a state or clique up to no good, and if I thought Obama might not be reelected, in my final window of opportunity, perhaps around September, I might flex my muscles in the former Soviet republics, send another missile over Japan or South Korea, cruise into Taiwanese waters, put some Argentine Marines on the “Malvinas,” seek readjustment in Cyprus and the Aegean, send some rockets into Tel Aviv, dispatch some suicide bombers from Gaza, and let off more missiles from Iran. Not just to make a statement, or to gain more “please don’t” concessions, but because it was my pleasure to do it—if only for the hell of it.

Scary... we could be in for a very interesting fall.

[VTenigma]

Ping

[bcsco]

Get a copy of his “Mexifornia” and read it. He nails the immigration issue through the lens of California’s idiocy.

[Roses0508]

BUMP so I can read more closely.

[saywhatagain]

Thank you for the tip. Shall look for it.

Am born and bred southern kalifornia. Experienced the growth of La Raza and LeMecha. Endured the Loretta Sanchez inanity. blah blah

We saw this coming 40 years ago. Aint no one going to stop it.