Victor Davis Hanson: Into the Tar Pits, Dinosaurs either evolve or die

NRO ^ | 12/30/2004 | Victor Davis Hanson

[Tolik]

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[.cnI redruM]

Amazingly fun to read. Not likely to happy. I kind of hoped something similar would happen and we could have two viable alternatives to vote for next election.

http://orsa.blogspot.com/2004/12/denazification-of-american-left.html

[JFK_Lib]

Dr HAnson is truly a national resource of huge proportions.

Another good article full of great ideas; except that I almost hope the Democrats continue to ignore him.

[chilepepper]

excellent article...

[snowsislander]

Remarkable -- from the topical nature of the piece it was penned in a very short period, yet the author's prose does not suffer from this rapidity of composition.

[G Larry]

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[Allan]

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[meema]

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[metesky]

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[MEG33]

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[filly]

Mr. Hanson is brilliant.
He points out that spreading Democracy is important and that no democratic nation has had a serous war with another democratic nation since 420 BC. (see his In Depth interview on Book TV)

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Firebrands like Al Sharpton and Michael Moore are the current leftist equivalents of 1950s right-wing extremists like the John Birchers

That worries me. If true it means that much of what Moore and Sharpton are saying will turn out to be true.

The evil extremists of the 1950s were pretty much right about communism's influence in the U.S. at the time and they were among the first to talk about left-wing and Marxist influences in academia. Despite the favorite claim that "proves" the Birchers were nuts -- that Eisenhower was a Communist -- there was more to them than a single remark by some Birchers.

I think Mr. Hanson is criticizing 20th century liberalism and, unless I read too much into the DLC's New Democrat On Line (ndol.org) postings, the Third Way progressives are very much behind free market globalization; migrant labor; transfers of American technology, know-how, and jobs to developing countries; and the left's "social justice." It's their version of Lenin's NEP. Conservative "free traders" are Lenin's "useful idiots."

[Steely Tom]

at least not as they once had been over the televised shooting of a Vietcong captain by South Vietnamese general Nguyen Ngoc Loan. Of course, the democracy activists in Iraq were working only for freedom, not, like Loan, for socialist tyranny.

I don't understand these two sentences. I thought General Loan was on our side.

(steely)

[bvw]

Dear Abby was more honest. She answered *some* actual questions. This is a preach to the choir, and dishonest for that. The choir comes to sing not to be preached at.

[Eagles6]

VDH for king. The good Dr. continues to see it all so clearly and tell it so well.

[spodefly]

BTTT

[Gritty]

If we thought indigenous liberationist movements of the Islamic world... put an enormous strain on the ossified Left, wait until Mao's old socialist utopia begins to send ultimatums to the democracies

Uh, it already is, re Taiwan.

It will only get worse as they increase in might and we wane because we've spent ourselves to death, deported most of our industrial and technology base, destroyed our human capital through an appalling education system, opened our own borders to uncountable illegals and the problems they bring, and try to cob together our own form of welfare state - all the while trying to be "politically correct" and offend nobody either foreign or domestic (except Christians).

Our plate is more than full, and we're worried about the environment?

[RAY]

Dear Abby was more honest. She answered *some* actual questions. This is a preach to the choir, and dishonest for that. The choir comes to sing not to be preached at.

Not in the Churches I've attended - speaking of honesty, generalization are not always honest.

Dr. Hanson is a gifted writer who communicates from an insightful historic perspective.

Have a great day and thank God we live in this country!