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[SolutionsOnly]

Another bullseye by VDH!

[1rudeboy]

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[MKM1960]

I think it was Dennis Praeger yesterday who was talking about how a German politician said the biggest mistake they ever made was allowing Turkish guest workers into the country. The politician stated that to save Germany , they were going to have to make German Culture the official one. The long and short of it was if you don't assimilate into the culture you would no longer be welcome. I believe that I hear they dying gasps of multiculturalism in Europe. What are the leftists in the US going to do. I hear the New York Times is deeply saddened.

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[Publius6961]

I would love to see this column as a full page ad in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Detroit, Philadelphia, New Orleans...
You get my drift.

Refute this if you can, morons!

[hershey]

When V.D. Hanson lists the sins of the elitist left, the mind reels...that we put up with it on a daily basis, while the MSM bow and scrape to the latest multicultural god and find something, anything to slam GW and America for. We stand by while millions die because of UN and Arab treachery. Now we hear on the news that Koffi Annan is hoping GW will endorse him? Let's hope there's a resounding silence from the WH.

[ladyrustic]

Thank you, Victor. You always seem to NAIL the issue, and I loved "The Soul of Battle," "Carnage and Culture," and "The Western Way of War."

[MizSterious]

"What is preached in the madrassas on the West Bank, in Pakistan, and throughout the Gulf is no different from the Nazi doctrine of racial hatred. What has changed, of course, is that unlike our grandfathers, we have lost the courage to speak out against it."

Not everyone, of course, but among the liberals, this is exactly true. What's worse, when someone does speak out against it--or take action as we are doing now in Iraq--they're condemned for it (by the liberals).

[mysto]

Once again, Victor Davis Hanson is dead on...
BRILLIANT!

[jcb8199]

Great article! Thanks for posting!

[Dr. Thorne]

It is truly heartening to have as brilliant a fellow as Hanson on our side. His analyses are always insightful, on-the-mark and deadly to the Left.

Thank you, Professor Hanson.

[Juana la Loca]

Wonderful read.

Bump!!!

[norton]

Very much a keeper,
thanks.

[bowzer313]

"If the moralizing Left wants to be taken seriously, it is going have to become serious about its own moral issues, since that is the professed currency of contemporary liberalism."

As much as I admire Hansen, I find that Jacques Barzun has a much more compelling critique of the liberal left and a much greater understanding of the moral degeneracy of modern liberals and the utter collapse of the entire liberal project that has held sway in the western world for so long. Hansen still seems to want to reform the left, for whatever reason I can't understand. Barzun recognizes that the liberals of today are pure evil; their influence should be destroyed altogether.

Read "From Dawn to Decadence" by Barzun, a recent book. Or "The House of Intellect" and "The Use and Abuse of Art", written in the 1950's, the heyday of modern liberalism. Barzun has had these monsters pegged for a very long time. I think Barzun has a broader and more far-ranging mind and perspective then Hansen, and that's saying a lot.

[OXENinFLA]

All the standing ovations for Kofi Annan cannot hide the truth that the Oil-for-Food scandal exceeds Enron. Indeed, Ken Lay’s malfeasance never involved the deaths of thousands, while cronies siphoned off food and supplies from a starving populace. The U.S. military does not tolerate mass rape and plunder among its troops, as is true of the U.N. peacekeepers throughout Africa. There can be no serious U.N. moral sense as long as illiberal regimes — a Syria, Iran, or Cuba — vote in the General Assembly and the Security Council stymies solutions out of concern for an autocratic China that swallowed Tibet. Millions were slaughtered in Cambodia, Rwanda, and Darfur while New York bureaucrats either condemned Israel or damned anyone who censured their own inaction and corruption.

OUCH!

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[Tribune7]

It should be required that any Moslem seeking immigration be required to specifically declare that those parts of the Koran supporting violence against non-believers or apostates are not the will of God.

[Ichneumon]

SLAM DUNK!

[headsonpikes]

A trenchant piece, even for VDH.