[Tolik]

    Victor Davis Hanson Ping ! 

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Links: FR Index of his articles:  http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=victordavishanson 
His website: http://victorhanson.com/     NRO archive: http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson-archive.asp

[randita]

For all the scrambling to disown the present policies, the irony is that they are bearing fruit and always had the best chance to end the region's genesis of terror. How sad that those who supported the costly spread of freedom are written off as illiberal, and those who resigned themselves to the easy status quo were seen as wise and sober.

Thoughtful and prescient piece by VDH, as usual.

[Loyal Buckeye]

VDH = Big picture guy

[ClearCase_guy]

I'm sorry to hear of his surgery, but glad that it seems to have gone well. Needing emergency surgery, and being in Libya, is something that would really dampen my day. VDH is very gracious in his thanks to the doctors that helped him.

And the article is good too.

[Bahbah]

No one pauses to suggest what the region would now look like with Saddam reaping windfall oil profits, 15 years of no-fly zones, ongoing corruption in Oil-for-Food, the bad effects of the U.N. embargo, Libya's weapons program, and an unfettered Dr. Khan.

They really ought to pause and think about it. The policy of don't rock the boat got us to 9/11. It had to change and the choices were not great. We are doing the right thing and I believe we will win despite the best efforts of the left to cause us to lose.

[libstripper]

I spent recent days recovering from emergency surgery for a perforated appendix in a Red Crescent clinic in Libya.

Dr. Hanson's lucky to be alive. Many years ago one of my fraternity brother's father went on a business trip to India, suffered a ruptured appendix, and died of peritonitis. He probably would have survivied if it had happened in the U.S. Congratulations to Dr. Hanson's doctors.

[maica]

Another pull quote to memorize and use with "war is not the answer" folks.

How sad that those who once fallaciously argued that the fascist Saddam was the proper counterweight to the fascist Iran now ignore that the genuine corrective is a democratic and humane Iraq.

[sauropod]

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