[Tolik]

    Victor Davis Hanson Ping ! 

       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
New Link!    http://victordavishanson.pajamasmedia.com/

[JamesP81]

Then there was the constant looking back to Pearl Harbor after 9/11—and wondering what would it take to truly anger the American people when we lost more on September 11, 2001 than on December 7, 1941, and on the home soil of the continental United States, right in the heart of our two greatest cities.

This is a personality trait of the American people. We are willing to fight, and to do what's necessary to win if we view it as a just cause or simply a matter of survival. For whatever reason, the collective conscience of the public has not yet decided that the actions of the Islamists warrants total war of the kind that won't distinguish between civilian and military, the kind that will utterly crush an opposing nation. Part of this is because we haven't had any attacks here in 5 years. If the Islamists keep on, especially if they resume attacks inside the US, there will eventually be a point where the sleeping giant will awaken, and nothing will satisfy it but the spilled blood of its attackers. For the sake of the middle east and for our own, the Islamists need to learn and understand this. But if they do not, we will eventually do what we have to do. It probably won't be until after much more carnage and after we've allowed ourselves into a fairly poor strategic position, but that day will come nonetheless, if they keep pushing.

[krunkygirl]

save

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks to the Cut and Run Bush Haters on both sides, America stumbled hard in the recent election. Thanks to the Bush Haters on both sides, our nation's survival is at risk with the Rats in control of congress, the next two years as shown below (courtesy of dead):

[PGalt]

Governance is not the same as easy criticism. Already the Democrats are learning, as is eternally true of our wonderful political system, that loud opposition is not the same as being responsible for governance.

LOL! Since when has a coalition of collectivists taken responsibility for anything?

[mtntop3]

A very perceptive article.

P. S -

Carterism is a new postmodern pathology in which smug piety, dressed up in evangelical new-age Christianity, pronounces from afar moral censure on the more righteous party—on the theory that acting well but not perfect is worse than acting badly.

Regret to state it but: Not infrequently Carterism permeates our very own FR posts in the form of feverish search and destroy missions involving ideological purity and absolute perfection in any and all Republican candidates.

This so frequently does Hillary's work for her