Friday
(0)Whilst I am far from a reflexive fan of Victor Davis Hanson, who seems to me to alternate between astute commentary and tedious conservative cranio-rectal insertions, it must be said that when he is on target, he is very on target. In his latest article on NRO The End of An Era: The bankruptcy of the anti-Americanists, Hanson is spot on this time.
Face it: Slobodan Milosevic, Mullah Omar, Yasser Arafat, and Saddam Hussein — not the ghosts of the thousands of their innocent dead — all prefer Ramsey Clark to George Bush. We are seeing nothing less than quite literally the end of an era — witnessed by the intellectual suicide of an entire generation, who in their last gasps are proving they have been not very moral people all along.
Absolutely!
You might enjoy this good piece too: a panel discussion on the theme of anti-Americanism. Hanson's one of the panelists:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=4489
Posted by Michael at November 8, 2002 09:54 PM
Perry: go read the Tom Wolfe essay that Glenn Reynolds just mentioned. Quite relevant I'd say.
Posted by Dale Amon at November 9, 2002 02:24 AM
NB: The URL from that first comment does not function.
Posted by MommaBear at November 9, 2002 05:38 PM
Having recently offended some of our more leftist rabid weasels with a post I wrote, I can testify that they are NOT RIGHT in the head. To them, Bush is Hitler.
How screwed up can you get?
Posted by Acidman at November 9, 2002 07:25 PM
Well said. Hanson is odd. He will be quite insightful in one essay, then tedious and blandly triumphant in the next. Maybe he has a few really good ideas that he spreads a little too thinly. This was a good one though.
Posted by me at November 10, 2002 06:34 AM
