Victor Davis Hanson: Brace Yourself – The months ahead will be momentous.

National Review ^ | September 3, 2004 | Victor Davis Hanson

[quidnunc]

FYI

[Enterprise]

Boy HOWDY! Like my friend says sometimes - "Get ready for an E Ticket ride"!

[notpoliticallycorewrecked]

You may have to translate that for the under 30 crowd.

See you tomorrow night.

[Enterprise]

Hee hee hee. I will probably be there for about an hour.

[notpoliticallycorewrecked]

If I pay the ransom and show up on time this time, can I get my chair back???

LOL

[boris]

"We should also accept that the terrorists have finally caught on to just how fragile the world’s oil supply is. The global economy is recovering. India and China are becoming voracious energy importers. The United States will neither tap all of its own ample reserves nor embark on a new round of fuel-efficiency standards. Global speculators and investors are hypersensitive to even the slightest disruption in supply."

As I keep saying, we need a "Manhattan Project" for energy independence based on crash construction of nuclear power plants [short-circuit the 'intervenors', lawsuits, environmental impact reports, etc...] and accelerated exploitation of methane clathrates together with drilling ANWR and other (so far forbidden) offshore resources.

We could be free of the Arabs in 10 years--or less. The President needs to get Congress to pass enabling legislation or do it by Presidential order; whichever will stand the howls of indignation from the eco-leftists and their fellow travellers...

--Boris

[seenenuf]

Sobering words after such a glorious evening with our
President. When Hanson speaks,, I listen hard.
I wonder how big the spread/win has to be, to hold the
loony Left in check. I'm thinking 10 points to keep their
ACLU buddies out of at least that many state supreme courts, come December.

[nmh]

"The 2002 winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Nicholson Baker, is due out with Checkpoint — an extended dialogue on killing (in a variety of strange ways) George Bush. Last year, comedian Rick Hall played to full houses in the U.K., performing his newest composition, “Let's Get Together and Kill George Bush.” A so-called pacifist group announced its sponsorship of a rather violent-sounding off-Broadway “guerilla comedy” entitled, I’m Gonna Kill the President."

Taking cues from AQ?

Scary stuff ... .

[WilliamofCarmichael]

I don't think that there has been a better description of the way it is than this article.

I want to say that today is so much like the conditions here during the Vietnam War -- only worse because other crises of a generation ago such as energy are piled on, new crises such as war here at home, and this time it's for all the marbles.

[Allan]

Bump

[Jeff Chandler]

Yesterland

[Mariner]

VDH nails it every time.....

[beckett]

Hear Hear

[Vision Thing]

Wow. In the 2nd sentence in the 2nd-to-last paragraph, VDH admits to being a lifelong Democrat.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Sobering article.

[fo0hzy]

Amazing. Thanks for the link.

/first post

[SuziQ]

We toured Seabrook Nuclear Power plant last year with our kids. I never knew it, but they had actually built TWO containment buildings, but only ended up bringing one facility on line because of the expense and time required to open the first one. They were delayed four years and it cost them millions in legal fees because the enviro-wackos kept them tied up with lawsuits. I asked the tour guide if they would ever open the second one, and he said only if the political climate changed drastically.

Well, I think the time is perfect for the President to open the discussion about nuke plants. We are way too dependent on foreign oil, and if we don't have to burn oil to create electricity, that could be used for making gasoline, and it will reduce what we need from overseas. With the war going on and the possibility of terrorism disrupting oil supplies and sending the price soaring, I think most people would be open to the nukes idea, and dismiss the squealings of the enviro-wackos. There have been many innovations in the design and construction of nuke plants all over the world. We don't have to build big huge plants; we could do smaller ones that would handle large cities, then go with a regional type facility for a bunch of smaller towns. It just take some vision and some guts, which our President has in great supply!

[hershey]

Agreed. The only question, besides when GW will take care of Iran, is what honest democrats will do about their party.

[L.N. Smithee]

"The 2002 winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Nicholson Baker, is due out with Checkpoint — an extended dialogue on killing (in a variety of strange ways) George Bush.

I walked into a S.F. bookstore looking for Unfit For Command and didn't find it, but did find Checkpoint. It's a tiny, short book. I breezed through it in about 45 minutes just so I could say that I didn't judge it before reading it.

My verdict? I'm no envirowacko, but it's sad trees died to make that book. It's an extended rant on how rotten Bush and Cheney are, and the GOP, and how although the Democrats are corrupt too, they aren't as bad.

There was ONE surprise. Baker submits that the Democrats would still be in charge of all three branches of government if it wasn't for their slavish devotion to abortion on demand.

All in all, not worth the money or the controversy. If you want to know the ending, right-click and drag across the below space:

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The guy who brought a gun to kill Bush is talked out of it by his friend. The guy was nuts anyway -- he thought he had magic bullets that would seek out their target.

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