[Jake The Goose]

VDH is a genius.

If I were POTUS - I would have a man like VDH attend every staff meeting - and offer historical analysis all the time.

PERSPECTIVE - that’s what VDH has.

[billbears]

HH: Do you see Sherman in Petraeus?

VDH: I do in a bit, because we have this caricature of Sherman that he was some sort of barnburner, and he was not. He war far more well-spoken, and we wrote far better than Ulysses S. Grant. In some ways, he understood the war better than Lincoln. And throughout his campaign, he gave very detailed exegesis of what he was doing, why he was punishing the people who owned slaves, and not the poor, white people who didn’t, and why he was going to humiliate and destroy the façade of Southern manhood. And that’s what his aim was. And this is what Petraeus does.

LOL, Vic's channeling again. His gross misunderstanding, not to mention outright lies, of the War Between the States is an even worse comparison than ancient Greek battles and the situation in Iraq. Somebody needs to give Vic a nice quiet position off the beaten path of academia where he can write to his heart's desire

[Greystoke]

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[Tolik]

    Victor Davis Hanson Ping ! 

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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
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[griswold3]

VDH mark

[bcsco]

Thanks for the ping. Bump for later read.

[Mariner]

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[Publius6961]

And Hezbollah really doesn’t exist as a global terror threat without petrodollars. The same thing with Hamas. And let’s be frank. There’s members of the Saudi royal family, all 7,000 of them, that supply money for people to kill Americans in Iraq. So that’s something that we’ve got a D on. It’s not an A at all. It’s a terrible record that the last six years, that we haven’t made a dent in cutting two to three…we don’t have to be energy independent. We just have to cut two or three million barrels out of the world demand each day. We consume 25% of the world’s oil. If we could just drill of our coasts, drill in Anwar, up the conservation average of our fleet, let Brazilians import ethanol, get back on the grid with nuclear power, starting with gasification, six or seven different things simultaneously to cut down two or three million barrels that we demand from the world every day, then that price would go down to $20-30 dollars.

Ignorance is truly bliss, and in the case of Americans, these connections were never grasped, and the problem will not simply go away by itself.

Petrodollars, terrorism, energy independence, nuclear power, ANWAR...

Funny that the Birkenstock crowd has forgotten all about John Muir when he said,

When you pick up anything in the world, you find that it is connected to everything else.

Doesn't apply to terrorism and oil I guess.

[Publius6961]

...people on the left who are highly educated and highly affluent, are very well spoken, just can’t believe that people don’t share their enlightened view of dialogue, and the value of words and speech and discourse and narrative. They think they can…Bill Clinton was, as we saw, thought he could talk and charm and debate anybody, and they don’t understand these people would rather kill you than talk to you.

Even VDH avoided saying the obvious right after 911; it was obvious all the time after 1965, when the "palestinians" were invented as a point around which the umma could rally to achieve the ends that has been their goal all the time.

These murdering savages believe that their god has chosen them to rule the world.

Strong incentive there.

The fact that it is beyond our comprehension does not in any way make it less real --- or less lethal.

It won't go away. It can only be forced into submission by the only means they understand: death. VDH has not emphasized that too often --- yet. But it's simply a matter of "when".