[Marguerite]

"For all the European hysteria over the reelection of George Bush, I would wager that privately, leaders there are sighing with relief that a resolute U.S. is fighting the Islamists, taking the heat, and supplying them with both emotional and material cover at no cost. How can you buy off the Iranians to drop their bomb plans without fear by the mullahs that a cowboy George Bush is the dreaded alternative?"

[Finger Monkey]

Wow. Excuse my ignorance, but who is this guy?

[baseball_fan]

Thank goodness for Dr. Hanson's clarity and backbone.

[ChadGore]

Wow . . this guy is good. Thanks for the post.

[John Lenin]

I don't know how this one was left out, it is classic VDH.

FP: Fair enough. But Mr. Hanson, I disagree with you when you say that the Left does not prefer monsters. Chomsky and Moore are not dying to move to Haiti or Syria. . .well yes, the Left has always been hypocritical on this level. But this is not just about silliness or some kind of dishonesty on their part. Throughout the 20th century leftist Western intellectuals worshipped Stalin, Mao and other mass killers. They went in droves to visit the communist concentration camps and they praised these societies while the killing fields were in their highest gear.

It is not just a coincidence that leftists venerate every despot that opposes the United States. The Left’s embrace of militant Islam today is just a logical continuation of Western intellectuals who travelled to Soviet Russia in the 1930s and worshipped Stalin -- and of Jane Fonda praising the North Vietnamese despots.

What I am getting at here is that there is a malicious and sinister objective within the heart of the Left. It craves totalitarianism, because totalitarianism will suffocate freedom and, ultimately, human life itself – which the Left hates the most. That every communist revolution ate its own children reveals a pernicious death wish in the heart of the Left, and I think it is very much in prominence once again in the War on Terror, in which the left is now in love with those despots who, once again, offer them the dream of extinguishing their own civil society and the freedom within it.

You find this interpretation too extreme?

[John Lenin]

Ooops, that is Jamie Glasov talking to Hanson.

[hershey]

Wow is right. Worrying over the "...parlor disdain..." of old Europe, et. al. John Kerry to a T. Thank you for these wonderful quotes. Everything is so obvious, it makes you angry that the left and the likes of Michael Moore get away with outright and stupid lies.

[SeeRushToldU_So]

Bookmark bump.

[muir_redwoods]

Right on but he's going to get in trouble if he keeps telling the truth.

[lainde]

Great collection...THANKS!!!!!

[Tolik]

    Victor Davis Hanson Ping ! 

       Let me know if you want in or out

[OXENinFLA]

VDH ~~ PING...

[metesky]

A real keeper.
:O)

Thank you both,
Keep 'em coming.

[lilmsdangrus]

bump for VDH!

[foreshadowed at waco]

It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom — NEVER!!!"

I agree totally. VDH is a true Renaissance man and he's ON OUR SIDE...I love it!