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Kurdish, Syrian, and Turkish Ironies By Victor Davis Hanson
Critics now upset about abandoning our Kurdish friends demanded abject withdrawals — and the abandonment of friends — in Afghanistan and Iraq. Outrage met Donald Trump’s supposedly rash decision to pull back U.S. troops from possible confrontational zones … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, education, History, Politics
Tagged and Turkish Ironies, Foreign Policy, Kurdish, opinion, President Trump, Syrian, us troops, Victor Davis Hanson
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Christopher Columbus deserves to stay in his rightful place By Laurence Bergreen
Christopher Columbus has been coming under fire for decades, and lately Mayor de Blasio hasn’t ruled out scrapping the iconic 1892 statue of the explorer, in Columbus Circle, as a possible “symbol of hate.” But if Columbus were to … Continue reading
Review of An Army At Dawn
In his Pulitzer-Prize-winning book, An Army At Dawn, The War in North Africa, 1942-43, Rick Atkinson takes an in-depth look at the fledgling Allied effort to gain a war footing in the attempt to confront the Nazi stronghold in … Continue reading
Posted in Book review, education, History, My Book Shelf, Politics, reading, words, Writing
Tagged books, Books and Reading, history, Military, music, Nazi, Non Fiction, North Africa, Review of An Army At Dawn, Rick Atkinson, United States, World War II
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Is England Still Part of Europe? By Victor Davis Hanson
Britain has a last chance to re-embrace the free-market democratic world that it once helped to create. British prime minister Boris Johnson is desperate to translate the British public’s June 2016 vote to leave the European Union into … Continue reading
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Tagged Boris Johnson, Brexit, European Union, Great Britain, opinion, Victor Davis Hanson
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Victor Davis Hanson column: The war over America’s past is really about its future
The summer season has ripped off the thin scab that covered an American wound, revealing a festering disagreement about the nature and origins of the United States. The San Francisco Board of Education recently voted to paint over, and … Continue reading
We Hold All the Cards in the Showdown with Iran By Victor Davis Hanson
In May 2018, the Donald Trump Administration withdrew the United States from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with Iran, popularly known as the Iran nuclear deal. The United States then ramped up sanctions on the Iranian theocracy to … Continue reading