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I have always wondered if the French who criticize Guantanamo Bay or Abu Ghraib, for that matter, recall the little matter of the Algerian civil war during which their own methods for extracting information were not always exemplars of gentleness...
Awesome article.
Every word rings true and the analysis hits home.
Have VDH in the title in brackets - that will catch the attn of more like mindeds out there. Am surprised this thread received so little traction.
Let me know if you want in or out.
Links: FR Index of his articles: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=victordavishanson
His website: http://victorhanson.com/ NRO archive: http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson-archive.asp
Great article.
I prefer to call it "Hypocrite Europe".
It had a no-win mandate, and will probably close soon due to international outcries about its supposed barbarity.
On release, each prisoner should be given a one-way ticket to a European nation from the list of those that have criticized Guantanamo. The treatment of the prisoners on arrival and after, until they leave that country, should be closely followed and reported.
VDH is the best connector of dots writing today.
Wow. Just wow.
While I love VDH, many of his columns lately have seemed flat, prepared just to meet a deadline.
*This* is *not* one of them.
Based on whose authority? Certainly not the hand wringing of Euro-weenies. Could happen if enough jellyfish Pubs jump on some anti-military, anti-American security, terrorist sympathizer RAT legislation I suppose.
Otherwise a good piece from VDH.
There are two reasons the Eurotrash elites get by with what they do:
1. Their left wing mediots and ours protect them and try to destroy any self protection we attempt.
2. The immediate reflex to support the Eurotrash in America by liberal and so called conservative Americans whenever an article like this comes out. Before the day is over and this thread grows cold, so called conservatives will be supporting the Eurotrash and ripping GW for wanting to protect Americans.
"Everbody's favorite arch-neocon hits the ball out of the park."
Actually, Dr Hanson is a Registered Democrat, and that probably would eliminate him from being a neo con.
http://victorhanson.com/articles/dowd082705.html
August 28, 2005
America’s Historian in Chief
by Alan W. Dowd
American Legion Magazine
"This interview with Victor Davis Hanson by Alan Dowd of the Sagamore Institute for Policy Research was conducted on April 5, 2005 in Indianapolis, Indiana, and published in the September 2005 issue of the American Legion.
Victor Davis Hanson emerged from the relative obscurity of his academic post at Fresno State University on September 11, 2001, to become something akin to America’s “Historian-in-Chief.” Spurred by a legion of eager editors, Hanson has translated his expertise in classical military history to the war on terror. The result is some 300 essays (and counting) and a literal army of devotees. He notes with pride that he receives 10 to 20 supportive emails each week from U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan."
"His primary platform for explaining this first war of the 21st century has been a decidedly modern mode of communication — the World Wide Web. With the dependability of Old Faithful, Hanson’s weekly commentaries have poured forth from the web-based daily of National Review, one of the forbears of the modern conservative movement. But Hanson reminds those who dismiss him as a Republican shill that he’s a registered Democrat."