[Libertarianize the GOP]

Excellent speech

[rlmorel]

Boy, oh boy.

I have heard this man used to be a “Stalinist”, but I never read his works from that era.

All I know is, every time I hear him discuss Afghanistan, Iraq and the rest of the Middle East, he hits it out of the park nearly every time!

Just brilliant!

I became an admirer one time when I was driving down to Newport RI one night, and I heard a radio debate between Victor Davis Hansen on the Iraq war in front of a large audience, and VDH completely, totally and unequivocally eviscerated and undressed Galloway in front of everyone on nearly every point.

I was beside myself, in the car driving down the dark highway saying “Yes!”

Just amazing.

[Christian4Bush]

mark for later

[Bishop_Malachi]

A great article...thanks for posting. I saved it to my desktop.

[BroJoeK]

"I think the answer is history, history, history.

These are the symptoms of a historically ignorant society that has almost no knowledge.

You can see it with Iraq when people say,

"This is the worst fill-in-the-blank—fiasco, blunder—in our entire history." "

[Tolik]

Combined ping to 2 ping lists

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                 Pajamasmedia:   http://victordavishanson.pajamasmedia.com/

Nailed It! This ping list is not author-specific for articles I'd like to share. Some for the perfect moral clarity, some for provocative thoughts; or simply interesting articles I'd hate to miss myself. (I don't have to agree with the author all 100% to feel the need to share an article.) I will try not to abuse the ping list and not to annoy you too much, but on some days there is more of the good stuff that is worthy of attention. You can see the list of articles I pinged to lately  on  my page. You are welcome in or out, just freepmail me (and note which PING list you are talking about). Besides this one, I keep 2 separate PING lists for my favorite authors Victor Davis Hanson and Orson Scott Card.

 

 

   

[LearsFool]

Audio and video at http://www.heritage.org/Press/Events/ev060308a.cfm

[GOPJ]

Sometimes they are more pedagogical and more ambitious, such as establishing "Peace Studies" programs to inculcate our youth that with proper study and counsels war can be outlawed, as if the resulting carnage is a result of misunderstanding rather than evil leaders knowing exactly what they want and planning how to get it. At other moments, diplomats delude themselves into think­ing leaders of autocratic states—a Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran or Bashar Assad of Syria or North Korea's Kim Jong-il—either have legitimate complaints against the West that explain their hos­tility or have been misrepresented in the Western press and appear bellicose largely through misun­derstanding and miscommunication.

Powerful stuff!