Victor Davis Hanson: So Lucky to Have Them

1 posted on 04/18/2004 9:57:13 PM PDT by quidnunc

2 posted on 04/18/2004 9:57:50 PM PDT by quidnunc (Omnis Gaul delenda est)

3 posted on 04/18/2004 11:17:00 PM PDT by lainde (Heads up...We're coming and we've got tongue blades!!)

I love this guy. If he ain't married I am gonna get in my car and drvie over the ugly pass at 152 and hunt him down on the old Bulldog campus ( or maybe in the hills)...VDH has always gotten it right and this is just one more brilliant piece

4 posted on 04/18/2004 11:27:23 PM PDT by jnarcus

To: quidnunc; seamole; Lando Lincoln; .cnI redruM; yonif; SJackson; dennisw; monkeyshine; Alouette; ...

The world is watching the Baathist and Islamic warriors of the Sunni Triangle and the Shiite militias and what they see they most surely do not like—for these fascists and theocrats are as foul and odious folk as they are on the wrong side of history. For a year now our soldiers have privately assured us that they were dealing with an enemy primordial and cruel. Now with the proof of filmed executions, desecration of the dead, the macabre hostage taking, and the shooters caught on tape firing from mosques and schools, the global community at last sees that this really is a war between civilization and barbarism, and one, for the world’s own sake, we Americans cannot and will not lose.
At a time when bin Laden assured the Middle East that Americans were weak and decadent, the US military tore apart the most fanatical and savage fighters of a savage Middle East—the only reprieve came from diplomats who fretted about the rhetoric of the hapless Arab Street. Far better than we at home, our soldiers grasped that fighting fascists for consensual government is a noble cause and should have been the source of great pride among the American people.
No, despite all the chaos in Washington, these are not bad, but rather noble times, among the best I think in our history. So let us remember the famous words of Virgil –indeed perhaps the most moving in all of Latin literature.

Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit
“The day will come when even this ordeal will be a sweet thing to remember.”

And so it shall be when it is all said and done.

Victor Davis Hanson moral clarity huge BUMP

[please freepmail me if you want or don't want to be pinged to Victor Davis Hanson articles]

If you want to bookmark his articles discussed at FR: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/k-victordavishanson/browse

His NRO archive: http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson-archive.asp

His blog: http://victorhanson.com/index.html BIO: http://victorhanson.com/Author/index.html

Yes, he is listened by the Bush Administration; they like him maybe as much as we do: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1085464/posts?page=6#6

5 posted on 04/19/2004 4:57:22 AM PDT by Tolik

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6 posted on 04/19/2004 5:02:46 AM PDT by GAgal

7 posted on 04/19/2004 5:05:05 AM PDT by MEG33 (John Kerry's been AWOL for two decades on issues of National Security!)

8 posted on 04/19/2004 5:05:51 AM PDT by Pan_Yans Wife (If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.--Kahlil Gibran)

To: quidnunc; Tolik

Thanks, Thanks.

Beautiful Mind

9 posted on 04/19/2004 5:12:58 AM PDT by PGalt

To: quidnunc; Tolik

Great column. Thanks quidnunc and Tolik.

I email Hanson's column to my non-FReeper conservative family members to buck them up and give them talking points and to my liberal family members to shame them and piss them off.

10 posted on 04/19/2004 5:31:21 AM PDT by metesky ("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)

It is hard to believe that until recently, VDH was simply an academic minding his own business and avoiding judgement of any kind. He has interpreted history, specially the "Western" way of war, and analyzed the motivations of a free society vs all manner of totalitarian historical wannabes.
That he has recently began to open up and express his opinion about the history he is now living, makes him one American that will be long remembered. His insight is based on knowledge and insight gained from historical knowledge most of us can never hope to obtain.

11 posted on 04/19/2004 5:47:06 AM PDT by Publius6961 (.)

In the current 9-11 hearings, along partisan lines and to the hisses and applause of the stacked gallery, grandstanders have tried to take apart a government even as it wages war for our national survival.

Sad but true.

It's really disconcerting that a large segment of our country's people are ignorant of this fact, and another large faction is pulling for the Bush administration to BE taken apart.

12 posted on 04/19/2004 5:50:59 AM PDT by wayoverontheright (Hidetheweeniespeak-the native tongue of liberals.)

13 posted on 04/19/2004 5:52:24 AM PDT by CatoRenasci (Ceterum Censeo Arabia Esse Delendam -- Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit)

Another great article worthy of a standing ovation.

14 posted on 04/19/2004 6:20:05 AM PDT by MattinNJ (America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.)

15 posted on 04/19/2004 8:08:52 AM PDT by Kryptonite

16 posted on 04/19/2004 8:11:51 AM PDT by BayouCoyote (The 1st victim of islam is the person who practices it.)

17 posted on 04/19/2004 8:19:53 AM PDT by bigfootbob

If Victor Davis Hanson is so eager to expend American blood and treasure to end fascism in every nook and cranny of the planet why isn't he on his hind legs demanding that we intervene in such hell holes as the Western Sudan and Zimbabwee?

18 posted on 04/19/2004 8:19:57 AM PDT by Captain Kirk

To: Captain Kirk

We first go to those places where we will help our own defense as well as liberate people. The Sudan will be liberated as well, and I think there is already pressure on Zimbabwe's worthless dictator.

But then you knew that, didn't you? You just wanted to gripe.

19 posted on 04/19/2004 8:28:01 AM PDT by Miss Marple

LadyDoc posted this article in full about four hours earlier over on THIS thread....

Quidnunc,

There you go again....

"Did I forget to post the full article again? D'OH!!"

FReegards,

ConservativeStLouisGuy

20 posted on 04/19/2004 8:39:40 AM PDT by ConservativeStLouisGuy (transplanted St Louisan living in Canada, eh!)

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