Victor Davis Hanson: The Mind of Mr. D’Souza - Nonsense.

National Review Online ^ | March 16, 2007 | Victor Davis Hanson

[misterrob]

Must be fun at the monthly staff meeting over there at Hoover Inst.

[neverdem]

VDH seems to be getting personal.

[Madame Dufarge]

Ping.

[raj bhatia]

I like D'Souza but his latest book is the single most nonsensical piece from a conservative writer.

[Alberta's Child]

He's getting personal because Dinesh D'Souza touched a real nerve. I don't agree with everything D'Souza has said/written on this subject, but in reading this article and others that have been written in response to him it's clear to me that they see him as a serious threat.

Any notion that radical secularism is at least as big a threat to this nation as radical Islam sends some of these folks off the deep end.

[Democratshavenobrains]

Nobody doubts that the Left has embraced a lot of bad things. But we have vastly more in common with moderate Democrats than moderate Arab Muslims.

[RayStacy]

I tend to favor Vic in this argument, but he makes one big mistake when he writes...

"Of course, he is. After all, millions of Americans support those policies of his “named individuals”—policies that may be wrongheaded, yet are hardly designed to lose the war against bin Laden as D’Souza alleges—and without any proof whatsoever. And I mean that literally when D’Souza, in his most reprehensible moment among many, identifies prominent Americans who, he says, are “domestic insurgents” (e.g., U.S. Senators Barbara Boxer, Hillary Clinton, Carl Levin, Patrick Leahy, Jack Reed, etc.) and “want bin Laden to win.”

What kind of DUMB ASS FRICKING IDIOT MORON FOOL doesn't realize that Hillary and all the left do indeed want bin Laden to win?

[Wuli]

Me thinks D’Souza has been meeting, maybe often recently, with James Baker, who sells the Saudi "traditional Muslim" line, even while Saudi-backed Wahabis in Saudi Arabia and beyond preach the same hatred preached by Ossama.

It is not Al Queda terrorist actions that build and provide the "cause" from which new Muslim sheeple-for-cannon-fodder are recruited. They come out of Wahabi, and Wahabi-like mosques all over the world. Who builds these mosques, all over the world? Saudi Arabia.

Baker's best friends and now maybe D’Souza's?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

"...we have vastly more in common with moderate Democrats than moderate Arab Muslims."

What is a moderate Democrat?

[Democratshavenobrains]

I'd say Joe Lieberman, at least on foreign policy. More broadly, I mean the millions of ordinary Democrats, not politicians, who don't think Haliburton and Dick Cheney caused 9/11.

Needless to say, this doesn't include Daily Kos, DU, HuffPo etc.

[LS]

I'd call this a B*tch slapping of the first order. VDH is absolutely right. D'Souza is whacko on this issue---and he was given the KEY luncheon speaking spot at C-PAC (bought and paid for by the publisher, of course. Jealous: wish my publisher would do that).

[donna]

Facts, then, meant little: not the billions of dollars in American aid sent to Amman, Cairo, or the West Bank; not the life-saving importation of Western medicines, expertise, or engineering; not the windfall profits from high-priced oil; not the generous American acceptance of tens of thousands of Muslim immigrants; not the salvation provided by the U.S. military or American assistance for millions facing annihilation, conquest, or starvation in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Indonesia, Kosovo, Kuwait, or Somalia.

I don't know what D’Souza's position is, but anyone who denies that America's politically correct Hollywood/Washington defined culture is anything other than a family destroying monster just isn't looking.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Joe Lieberman is in a class by himself.

All other Democrats have rabies.

[Bainbridge]

D'Souza deserved it. His thesis is truly bizarre.

[LS]

Joe Lieberman, Zell Miller, Richard Daley's son who joined the (I think) USMC. Those moderate Dems. There are some.

[madprof98]

Any notion that radical secularism is at least as big a threat to this nation as radical Islam sends some of these folks off the deep end.

That is because so many self-styled conservatives are in fact radical secularists who espouse the values D'Souza tactfully (or perhaps tactically) associates with the Left. See, e.g., Rudy Giuliani.

[A_perfect_lady]

But Al Qaeda did not attack New York and Washington because those on the Left, such as Bill Moyers, Robert Reich, or Sharon Stone (to quote from D’Souza’s own list of the guilty), encouraged or allowed the terrorists to commit mayhem.

No. Otherwise they'd have attacked Hollywood.

[RepublicanPOTUSin08]

D'Souza is an appeaser. He wants us to change our way of life so that the terrorists won't blow us up. Now, for you social conservatives who don't have a problem with that, imagine how you'd feel if D'Souza or any pundit said, "We should just give Israel back to the Islamists. That would solve the problem. They won't hate us anymore, and they won't blow us up!"

Appeasement by any other name is still appeasement.

[misterrob]

I agree. The exporation or sex, abortion and disdain for religion inflames the nut jobs. However, I see no reason to curtail freedoms so as to no offend the pig humpers.