VD Hanson och P Berkowitz om arabvärlden

Från Uncommon Knowledge.

Hoover senior fellows Victor Davis Hanson and Peter Berkowitz discuss possible outcomes for Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and other Middle East states entrenched in popular unrest.

1/5: What sparked the historic popular conflagration that has swept the Arab world?


2/5: ...possible outcomes for Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and other Middle East states entrenched in popular unrest.


3/5: ...the role of social networking in the Arab unrest.


4/5: What does Israel think about the Arab revolution?


5/5: ...the U.S. policy response to the Arab upheaval.



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Andra bloggar om: samhälle, politik, utrikespolitik, demokrati, islamism, Egypten, Tunisien, Libyen, Bahrain, Mellanöstern, arabvärlden

Intervju: Victor Davis Hansen om USA:s krig

Fick när jag editerat denna post se att det idag är 7 år sedan Irak-kriget startade. I denna intervju ger historikern och författaren Victor Davis Hansen perspektiv.

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Rekommenderar länkarna med kompletta intervjuklipp i denna Hoover Institution-info:

On Uncommon Knowledge this week, Peter Robinson interviews author and historian Victor Davis Hanson. They discuss the American style of war and it's weakness in Iraq and how Bush should have handled the anti-war opposition differently.

They go on to talk about the lessons VDH learned from his dad about the reality of war, why Pres. Obama gets away with the Bush war strategy, and the ultimate importance of understanding military history and human sacrifice.

The entire interview can be found at National Review Online:

Part 1 - why war is inseparable from the human condition: [LÄNK]
Part 2 - several ways in which the American way of war is distinctive: [LÄNK]
Part 3 - error and war, including the errors made in the War in Iraq: [LÄNK]
Part 4 - the study of war. : [LÄNK]
Part 5 - some insight into his life as a war historian — and more: [LÄNK]

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Andra bloggar om: samhälle, historia, politik, säkerhetspolitik, krig, Irakkriget, andra världskriget, USA

44 procent tar Bush framför Obama

Victor Davis Hanson tar i the corner bl a upp Sarah Palins op-ed i Washington Post (tar jag upp på min klimatblogg). Hanson avslutar artikeln med att Obama kan få problem med ...en "favoritdemon".

"The Trumanization of Bush? A Public Policy poll lists that an astounding 44 percent of those interviewed said they would now prefer George W. Bush to President Obama. Bush's post-9/11 security protocols kept us safe, Iraq will probably work, and his regrettable deficits and big spending proposals like No Child Left Behind and the prescription-drug benefit, in comparison to the ongoing $1.7 trillion deficts and the $9 trillion more slated to come in the next few years, make Bush seem almost fiscally sound. Maybe the public also sees Bush's post-presidential magnanimity quite in contrast with Obama's tawdry whines about the prior administration. In other words, I think Obama will have to drop "Bush did it" — since it seems to be creating nostalgia in comparison to the current alternative of bows, deficits, apologies, and Chicago cronyism — and far more still to come."

Andra bloggar om: samhälle, politik, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Obama, USA, , Climategate

V. D. Hanson om mångkulturalismens hyckleri

För några minuter sen hittade jag FORA.tv Youtube-kanal, där det finns små klipp ur föreläsningar och intervjuer i alla tänkbara ämnen -- etanol, homosexualitet och ärftlighet, Dick Morris om vicepresidentkandidater, intervjuer med Henry Kissinger, Salman Rushdie, Cristopher Hichens, Daniel Pipes men även västkritiska debattörer o s v...........

Fann där detta klipp med Victor Davis Hansen om politisk korrekthet, där han beskriver hur hycklande västkritiker inom vänstern är.




Fann t ex även dessa knappt 4 minuter ur en intervju med Ayaan Hirsi Ali i juni i år ...och här på FORA-tv:s hemsida är visst hela entimmesintervjun!

På sajten FORA-tv tycks finnas en hel del intressant om vetenskap och samhälle.


(För denna reklam kan FORA.tv ge 1000 dollar via Paypal-ikonen uppe till höger på bloggen. Tack på förhand! ;-) )