[quidnunc]

FYI

[conservativecorner]

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.

[vbmoneyspender]

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.

[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

[ozaukeemom]

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

[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

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The Axis of Weasels was much too kind a term.

[etcetera]

"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.

[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).

[mattdono]

**VDH Bump**

Well, the esteemed professor (Dr. Hanson) has proven again his brilliance.

I have to admit, I have been a voracious consumer of news for many years (as most of us on FR happen to be), but I am not sure when Dr. Hanson started writing these types of editorials. I think he is a fairly recent (last year or so) addition to the writers at NRO, but I don't remember seeing his writing before that.

All I can say is that I am glad he is writing articles now. This man is able to frame issues in common-sense way, while including sizable intellectual "weight" behind his points. His books and his editorial pieces are superb.

[Rutabega]

bookmarking!!!

[TEXOKIE]

"Victory will come when Americans accept that terror is but a method, not an enemy."

Thought you'd like to see this interview of Victor Davis Hanson.

[Choose Ye This Day]

"It really is a make-believe world in which a Barbra Streisand, Gore Vidal, or Arianna Huffington cheaply sound off from their estates about some purported cosmic evil fostered by poor deluded Americans hooked on K-Mart and NASCAR."

EXCELLENT!

VDH is perhaps my favorite Democrat.

[Yardstick]

Good grief, that Hanson's a sharp fella.

[The Californian]

Bump for later read

[NZerFromHK]

The more I look at the issues, the more I think everything looked from the European perspective is like a war against America rather than Islamic terrorism. Just this week, the Economist summed this sentiment (I don't think the magazine takes this position though - it seems too conservative on this) with a heading "One down - three to go?"

You get the picture: when you imagine that camp of appeasement thinking of itself as like the WWII Allied nations, while the US and the coalition of the willing as the "new Axis nations".

[shezza]

Another gem from the article:

"It is our duty not to facilitate that hatred by appeasement or multicultural goobly-gook, but instead offer the carrot of reform and help-and the stick that lets them know in no uncertain terms our ancestors didn't die at Gettysburg, Iwo, or Pusan to give into their pathetic Dark Age fantasies. They must accept that the next regime, rogue nation-call what you will- who has any remote connection with those who commit a 9-11 like attack on the United States will learn that their complicity is synonymous with their utter destruction."

The entire article is worth a read.

[VOA]

Victor Davis Hanson bump!