[wretchard]

This is a phenomenally good article, whose basic tenet is that right and wrong do exist: their demise in the liberal media notwithstanding. It so happens that Western civilization, infused with Christian values, is the repository of everything we have learned about good and evil these last two thousand years.

It is now fighting to survive, threatened, not so much from without, but by the challenge from within.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Found this on Andrew sullivan's website.

Anyone familiar with this writer.
I like what he is saying!

I am pinging some of nightowls I see posting tonight!

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

WOW!

This takes the hide off the traitorous liars among us. I love it! Oh, how the passion of truth sweetens the air.

[Aeronaut]

Excellent article. Thanks for posting it.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

[backhoe]

Yhe whole article is worthy, but let me bold this:

The United Nations did nothing after September 11 to prevent future attacks. NATO has proved a charade. The Red Cross worries about the mittens, hoods, and nutritional content of breakfast cereal for killers in Guantanamo — but says little about real torture and murder outside the gates, in Havana itself. They all talk tough to educated and decent American officers about triviality involving a few hundred — but are not so brave or effective about matters of life and death for starving millions in Africa, when confronted by 15-year old psychopaths with Kalishnikovs. Had any of these international relief and rights organizations, or our supposed allies in Europe, possessed the moral fiber of the U.S. Army, then they would have exited Cuba and sent their entire staff to the Congo, where millions have been butchered in silence in the last few years — more dead than the entire population of the West Bank, and a sequel to the prior holocaust in Rwanda. We know that our enemies are strong and evil, but it is disappointing to keep learning each day that our allies, though they sometimes mean well, remain continually weak.

[junta]

I find it hard to believe this was in NR. NR has slipped badly these last few years becoming no more than an echo chamber for a few bought and paid for political lobbies. Chronicles is a far superior product overall, but if NR takes articles like these and starts to flesh them out with in depth analysis from astute thinkers it can be brought back to life.

[FairWitness]

Great article. Says exactly what I would say if I knew how to say it so well.

[bassmaner]

The final victory at the Berlin Wall ensured Communism was ruined forever as a practical institution.

Sadly, that's not true. The Kremlin masters may be gone, but their spirit lives on, on American college campuses, in the leftist mainstream media, in Hollywood, and in the "progressive" wing of the modern Democratic Party. Many may deny it, but Communism is alive and well, and the main weapon that it's using to destroy our way of life from within is the poison of "political correctness".

[RobFromGa]

Great article.

The civilized work of creating a multiracial society under the aegis of one nation and culture is difficult, while the disintegration into multiculturalism is easy. The former requires men and women of genius and humanity, the latter little more than provocateurs and the half-educated.

Even in our own great country, we have these same "half-educated" provacateurs at work-- Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, the Liberal Wing of the Democrat party, the Leadership of the DNC, the political hacks like Carville and Begala, striving mightily to cause exactly "the disintegration into multiculturalism" Hansen describes.

On the other side you have "men and women of genius and humanity" trying to get past the division and get all the oarsmen in the boat pulling together- Bush, Rice, Rumsfeld, Cheney, most other Black leaders, etc...

[aculeus]

Excellent article.

[Billthedrill]

A Victor Hanson bump.

[x]

He's right about the dangers of tribalism, multiculturalism and anti-Americanism, but it's not yet clear whether the changes we see now will be permanent or temporary. A prolonged war may mean an eventual falling out between the US and our allies. A long, challenging war means multiculturalism is on ice for a long time, but a short war may bring a return of multiculturalism in its wake, given the underlying demographics.

[neutrino]

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[KC_for_Freedom]

What, then, will replace the present bankrupt and amoral assumptions and ideologies? Let us hope perhaps that we can return to the honesty and realism of classical 19th-century Western liberalism, which, for all its naiveté and self-centeredness, still did not cause a fraction of the carnage as did the utopian promises of our most murderous 20th century.

Yes, lets hope that the idiology changes and that multiculturalism and political correctness die quickly. But the article stops short of a suggestion for the current situation. I suggest that nothing short of total defeat of the terrorists and their supporters is called for. And this will indeed mean more carnage.

[dighton]

First-rate.

[thucydides]

Hanson is a classics scholar. Nobody portrays the vicissitudes of war and human folly like Thucydides in his "Peloponnesian War," no one has illuminated the barbarous character of the middle east better than Xenophon in his "Anabasis" (the March Upcountry, in which a group of 10,000 disciplined greek infantry routinely defeated forces up to 40 times their size). Hanson's immersion in the classics gives him the perspective to see just how trivial all these ideas that have dominated our culture for the last 30 years really were.

[primeval patriot]

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