Noted historian Victor Davis Hanson takes the New York Times to task in this article from City Journal. He separates the facts from the hysteria (and defeatist propaganda) about Iraq, and I've always found him to be exceptionally rational and fair, especially for a Democrat from California.
Hanson starts out, "On July 8, the New York Times ran an historic editorial entitled “The Road Home,” demanding an immediate American withdrawal from Iraq. It is rare that an editorial gets almost everything wrong, but “The Road Home” pulls it off. Consider, point by point, its confused—and immoral—defeatism…"
Is the war lost? Was it a lost cause to start with? Examine carefully what Professor Hanson says and decide if what we normally hear in the media and from our politicians is fair analysis or fact-twisting propaganda.
We may yet lose this war, but historians from future generations will scratch their heads at how we lost our nerve and snatched defeat from the jaws of victory, mortgaging their future for our present.
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Dem? Don't think so.
"The Democratic Party reminds me of the Republicans circa 1965 or so—impotent, shrill, no ideas, conspiratorial, reactive, out-of-touch with most Americans, isolationist, and full of embarrassing spokesmen." Victor Davis Hanson
VDH is a registered Democrat. Here's a quote from an interview in 2003.
Hanson: "All I can tell you is I'm still a registered Democrat. I have a liberal twin brother who disagrees with everything I write. And I have a far more liberal older brother who not only disagrees with what I write, but I imagine is really bothered by it. I had two conservative Democratic parents who were in the Populist tradition of farmers, sort of William Jennings Bryan types."
Not every Democrat is a liberal secular-progressive socialist. Just 9 out of 10. :-)
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