Victor Davis Hanson


Between War and Peace
Lessons from Afghanistan to Iraq

I.  THE WAR AGAINST TERROR

 1.  The Wages of September 11, There is no going back.
[written: 2002/09/09  |  published: 2002/09/11  National Review Online]

 2.  Al Qaedism, From criminality to politics in the blink of an eye.
[written: 2002/10/30  |  published: 2002/11/01  National Review Online]

 3.  It’s Not the Money, Stupid! War apparently must be anything other than good vs. evil.
[written: 2003/01/01  |  published: 2003/01/03  National Review Online]

II.  THE DILEMMA OF THE MIDDLE EAST

 4.  Postmodern Palestine, The new amorality in the Middle East.
[written: 2002/03/27  |  published: 2002/03/29  National Review Online]

 5.  History Isn't on the Palestinians' Side, Arafat's strategy is suicidal in more ways than one.
[written: 2002/03/30  |  published: 2002/04/02  WSJ OpinionJournal]

 6.  Occidentalism, The false west.
[written: 2002/05/08  |  published: 2002/05/10  National Review Online]

 7.  A Ray of Arab Candor, A U. N. report by Middle-Eastern intellectuals blames Arab culture and Arab tyranny for Arab problems.
[written: 2002 June  |  published: 2002/07/03  City Journal]

 8.  Our Enemies, the Saudis
[written: 2002 July  |  published: 2002 July  Commentary]

 9.  Middle East Tragedies, Pressing ahead is our only choice.
[written: 2003/05/21  |  published: 2003/05/23  National Review Online]

III.  SUPPORTING ISRAEL?

10.  Why Support Israel? It would certainly be easier not to.
[written: 2002/02/02  |  published: 2002/02/04  National Review Online]

11.  Israel’s Ajax, The Tragedy of Mr. Sharon.
[written: 2002/04/21  |  published: 2002/04/23  National Review Online]

12.  On Hating Israel, What we know but can’t say out loud.
[written: 2002/05/05  |  published: 2002/05/07  National Review Online]

13.  Fortress Israel? Something there that doesn’t love a wall.
[written: 2002/06/23  |  published: 2002/06/25  National Review Online]

14.  Flunking with Flying Colors, Failing the moral test of our times.
[written: 2002/08/07  |  published: 2002/08/09  National Review Online]

IV.  ANTI-AMERICANISM

15.  Roots of American Self-Doubt, Why can no American say “Who cares?”
[written: 2002/01/23  |  published: 2002/01/25  National Review Online]

16.  Misunderstanding America, We’re not the ones with the problems.
[written: 2002/02/23  |  published: 2002/02/25  National Review Online]

17.  On Being Disliked, It’s an America thing.
[written: 2002/07/30  |  published: 2002/08/02  National Review Online]

18.  I Love Iraq, Bomb Texas, The psychological roots of anti-Americanism.
[written: 2003/01/xx  |  published: 2002 December  Commentary  &  2003/01/13  WSJ OpinionJournal]

19.  “Evil Over Good”, The wages of dead-end logic.
[written: 2003/01/22  |  published: 2003/01/24  National Review Online]

20.  Doom, Doom, and More Doom, Should we trust past facts or present hysterics?
[written: 2003/02/05  |  published: 2003/02/07  National Review Online]

21.  Our Western Mob, From the graveyard of Kabul to the quagmire of Iraq to the looting of Baghdad.
[written: 2003/04/12  |  published: 2003/04/14  National Review Online]

V.  EUROPE

22.  European Paradoxes, The war that divides us.
[written: 2002/07/29  |  published: 2002/07/29  National Review Online]

23.  Good-bye to Europe?
[written: 2002 September  |  published: 2002 October  Commentary]

24.  Geriatric Teenagers, The Paris-Berlin-Moscow axis needs some tough love.
[written: 2003/04/30  |  published: 2003/05/02  National Review Online]

25.  The Old Game, Once upon a time, everything was so nice and predictable …
[written: 2003/06/04  |  published: 2003/06/06  National Review Online]

VI.  THE THREE-WEEK WAR

26.  Iraqi Interrogatories, The usual questions about Iraq.
[written: 2002/09/18  |  published: 2002/09/20  National Review Online]

27.  Iraq Redux, Not another 1991 Gulf War.
[written: 2002/09/25  |  published: 2002/09/27  National Review Online]

28.  From Manhattan to Baghdad, One enemy, one war, one outcome.
[written: 2003/02/19  |  published: 2003/02/21  National Review Online]

29.  The Long Riders, How do our soldiers do it all?
[written: 2003/03/22  |  published: 2003/03/24  National Review Online]

30.  The Train Is Leaving the Station, Will our “friends” jump on in time?
[written: 2003/04/02  |  published: 2003/04/04  National Review Online]

31.  Don Rumsfeld, a Radical for Our Time
[written: 2003/04/26  |  published: 2003/05/05  National Review]

32.  Postbellum Thoughts, Ideas from war’s aftermath.
[written: 2003/05/07  |  published: 2003/05/09  National Review Online]

VII.  A NEW FOREIGN POLICY?

33.  A Funny Sort of Empire, Are Americans really so imperial?
[written: 2002/11/25  |  published: 2002/11/27  National Review Online]

34.  Korea Is Not Quite Iraq, Hypocrisy in service to victory is no vice.
[written: 2003/01/08  |  published: 2003/01/10  National Review Online]

35.  So Long to All That, Why the old world of bases, alliances, and NATO is now coming to an end.
[written: 2003/01/29  |  published: 2003/01/31  National Review Online]

36.  Muscular Independence, No more buying, bullying, and begging abroad?
[written: 2003/03/12  |  published: 2003/03/14  National Review Online]

37.  Gone But Not Forgotten, Making war and peace in the new post-Soviet world.
[written: 2003/05/28  |  published: 2003/05/30  National Review Online]

VIII.  POSTSCRIPT

38.  History or Hysteria? Our vulture pundits regurgitate rumor and buzz.
[written: 2003/03/26  |  published: 2003/03/28  National Review Online]

39.  The Surreal World of Iraq, Let us thank our soldiers on this Independence Day.
[written: 2003/06/27  |  published: 2003/07/02  National Review Online]