[Tolik]

Victor Davis Hanson moral clarity huge BUMP  

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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

[valkyrieanne]

Fallujah delenda est. Too bad we didn't. We'll pay for this for months down the road.

[dennisw]

btttt

[dirtboy]

If one goes back to the fifth week of Bill Clinton's 79-day bombing campaign against Serbia — no U.N. approval, no congressional sanction, NATO partners backing out — one reads of castigation from the American Right about bombing a Christian Orthodox country in Europe, from neoconservatives about not committing ground troops, and from the Left about going to war at all. But with Milosevic in the dock and the mass murder stopped, we now are told that the Clinton administration's efforts to stop the bloodbath in the Balkans proved to be about the only success of his scandal-ridden administration. Why? He persevered and won — and we can imagine what would have happened had he caved in at week six and called it another Mogadishu.

Hansen gets it wrong on two fronts here. First of all, Kosovo was not a victory - instead, Slick capitulated to most of what Milosevic was willing to accept all along, and then declared victory. And second, the press was complicit in going along with the facade - but they would do the opposite if Bush capitulated in Iraq.

[Mr. Mojo]

Storming Fallujah would have begotten Jenin-like hysteria, condemnations from mullahs and imams, and cries from John Kerry — for a day or two — but begrudging respect inside Iraq that thousands of insurrectionists (among them hated Baathists) were dead or scattered, and it was safer now to be against Saddam's remnants than with them.

Precisely.

[RAY]

Another insightful article by Dr. Hanson. He is right on.

Pray that George, Dick and Rummy will ignore the yapping jackals and concentrate on wining.

[Remember_Salamis]

VDH in 2008!

[Valin]

But what about the short-term for Americans, who are captives of the 24-hour news cycle? Their support depends on us not merely winning — as the recent routing of Mr. Sadr attests — but winning in such a dramatic fashion that even a global media ideologically opposed to the undertaking is forced to report American success, and report it with genuine zeal.

Never gonna happen. They remind me of the guy who wins the lottery then complains that he has to pay taxes on it.

[My2Cents]

A majority of Americans, like a majority of mankind, does not embrace a strong particular ideology that keeps them levelheaded and always resolute through either bad or good news.

This is why our nation is in peril.

[stainlessbanner]

The president, of course, is responsible for these wild swings in his popularity

Wrong.

[Gritty]

BTTT

[Madame Dufarge]

Bump.

[gargoyle]

..."Judged by historians" I hope not. Present the facts, and as individuals, judge the results...

[prognostigaator]

hanson knows his stuff