8 posts tagged “victor davis hanson”
Victor David Hanson gives a speech at the Wednesday Morning Club. The theme is the Iraq War and how success is occurring and that the Democrats are in denial.
JRH 3/27/08
Victor Davis Hanson poses the scholarly question: Is the War on Terror over?
Hanson then proceeds to all the Leftist pundits and politicians of America and Europe that publicly imply the word “war” is now not the correct term to use concerning conflict with Mohammedan Jihadists.
Then (Thank God) Hanson proceeds with the implications that the Leftists and centrists are thinking moronically scoring a success to Jihadist intimidation.
You can read Hanson’s analysis at Real Clear Politics or at SlantRight.com.
Victor Davis Hanson has written one of most ill conceived titles to an awesome essay. “Iraqi Blowback” is more an exposé on the ludicrous guilty verdict of Scooter Libby than the Blowback of bad decisions made in not making a viable victory and exit strategy from Iraq.
Victor Davis Hanson is an immanent military historian that the West would do well to listen too. In a recent interview with The Jerusalem Post Hanson talks about why it is nutty to allow Iran to acquire nuclear energy that could be used for weapons grade enriched uranium. READ IT HERE.
Victor Davis Hanson is a man I respect immensely as a pundit writer and historian. I am not so sure I agree with his good intentions of taking the slow route to reign in the global hostility of . Hanson presents a logical and well intentioned approach for America, EU and the United Nations to put the squeeze on Iran without utilizing military confrontation.
Hanson advocates a kind of united American and EU diplomatic assault on Iran through the vehicle of the United Nations slowly squeezing sanctions that Hanson believes will slowly constrict Iran’s compliance to global peace.
Hanson believes Iranian citizens will turn on the Mullocracy and Ahmadinejad if economic and living conditions became unbearable. Frankly I disagree. There is an obvious growing dissent in Iran, however for the most part Iranians have plugged into Shi'ite radicalism hook, line and sinker. We are talking about a regime that sent children as martyrs in the Iraq/Iran war to clear minefields. I doubt a little discomfort will shake Iranian support of radical Shi'itism.
The problem I have with this approach is that the EU is way too invested economically with Iranian oil to stand completely unified with America. Also, the United Nations Security Council has two permanent members with veto power that also are invested in the Iranian economy: Russia and China. That pretty much neutralizes the United Nations as a vehicle to squeeze sanctions successfully to the point for Iran to take notice. The U.N. sanctions (if any) will always be diluted to favor continued economic relations with Russia and China.
The EU is divided on Iran. Germany may be seeing the light (dimly) of Iran’s evil yet I doubt France would pierce the darkness of Iranian evil unless there was a diverted way to attain oil or Iran directly threatened French pride in some way. The British government is already invested in confronting Iranian evil yet there are a huge block of voters that may change that investment. There are many lesser EU members that adore American democracy since attaining freedom from the tyrannical slavery of the overtly Communist former Soviet Union. These lesser members are primarily from what was known in the Cold War days as the Soviet Bloc.
Hanson’s logic and intentions are sound. Hanson’s conclusions are doubtful to get off the drawing board to be executed.
Victor Davis Hanson is a scholar and Fellow for the Hoover Institute. He is well respected enough to write columns and Editorials in various publications online and on paper. Hanson also operates his own blog which I visit often. That Blog is Works and Days.
Comments are allowed on his Blog which I find amazing. Hanson as scholarly as he is is still right of center. That infuriates fringe Lefties.
Hanson’s February 5th blog entry is a thoughtful answering of past comments to Hanson’s Blog. I encourage you to read it.
Victor Davis Hanson is awesome! Hanson explains the reasons as to why the Democrats will be bellicose against Bush, but will do little to actually stop the troop surge.
The bottom line is the hypocritical Dems are going to wait and see which way the fortunes of war turn so they can turn with it. The Dems simply wish to continue to transform America into a socialist morally relative nation. To do so the Dems have to maintain political power. To maintain political power they have to undermine Republican, Neocon and Christian Right successes by twisting the light into darkness.
The Dem alliance with the Mainstream Media (MSM) and fringe Left Wing organizations is all about an American society transformation. The Dems will not talk about this transformation because when Joe Voter hears it the Dems know they will not like it.
Thus the Dem strategy is not to put forth solutions but twist truth or blacken Conservative Republicans. In today’s case it is this mantra: “if Bush said it or thought of it, it must not be good for America.” It is a hate Bush mantra, not solve problems mantra.
Victor Davis Hanson is a coherent writer. Hanson gets to the point with little regard to political correctness. That endears the old military historian in my eyes.
I have just read Hanson’s “War?-What War?” on his Works and Days Blog. The essay is a kind of analysis on the War on Terror to date. Hanson delves into radical Mohammedanism and the Western Response to radical Mohammedanism.
