Israel Remains Calm in the Face of Syria and Iran’s Jingoism
Since the Obama administration’s announcement that Syria’s use of chemical weapons against its population requires a tough response — perhaps military strikes — Syria and...
Victor Davis Hanson
Wishful Thinking: A Lethal Habit When it Comes to Islamist Terrorists
Osama bin Laden probably does not get home delivery of Parade but more than 30 million Americans do. And on the magazine’s cover last Sunday was the not-quite-smiling face of Benaz...
Op-eds
Confidence Game
If there's a lesson to be learned from the NIE, it's keep the pressure on Iran.
Op-eds
La Gran Estafa
Hágase una simple pregunta: ¿Por qué Irán sigue violando el derecho internacional enriqueciendo uranio? ¿Piensa Ud. que Mahmud Ahmadineyad y sus socios est&aacu...
Op-eds
Congress Has War Powers, Too
And it is time to start using them.
Op-eds
Bin Laden, No More
Bin Laden’s death at the hands of a small team of American ninjas deep in Pakistan sends the world — especially our enemies — a powerful and much-needed reminder of some essenti...
Op-eds
Another National-Security Flip-Flop
No sooner did Victor Davis Hanson compile a prodigious list of national-security flip-flops by the Obama Left (posted on the Corner under the title “If We Say It Is, It Is . . . ”) th...
Op-eds
The Helen Thomas Show
An interesting side debate has broken out over whether Helen Thomas should have been fired from Hearst for saying what she did. A retired Pakistani brigadier of my acquaintance wrote to me to say...
Op-eds
Wishful Thinking: A lethal habit when it comes to Islamist terrorists
Osama bin Laden probably does not get home delivery of Parade but more than 30 million Americans do. And on the magazine’s cover last Sunday was the not-quite-smiling face of Benazir Bhutto, along with this confident quote: “I am what the terrorists most fear.”
By the time Bhutto’s image and words reached America’s breakfast tables, she was, of course, dead. The January 6 issue of the magazine had gone to press before Bhutto was assassinated on Dec. 27 during a campaign stop in northern Pakistan.
Op-eds
Crossing the Delaware, the Tigris, and the Euphrates
By: Joseph Morisson Skelly, 2003 FDD Academic Fellow. On the night of December 25, 1776, with the winter wind whipsawing the water, with waves ripping across the bows of their l...
Op-eds
Muscular Idealism
You can't fight terrorism without fighting terrorists. You have to eliminate both those who load cars with explosives and those who tell them where to go and whom to kill. Most people grasp...
Op-eds
Why We Fought
The History of the Iraq War is Being Twisted
Op-eds
War Story
The Bush administration is mounting a major public relations offensive regarding Iraq. The problem? It doesn't go far enough. The goal of the current PR campaign is to persuade Amer...
Op-eds
Symposium: Bush’s Decision to Go to War. Was it Justified?
By Jamie Glazov As the controversy over the missing Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq escalates, so does the criticism of President Bush and his decision to go to war. Was the liberati...