Victor Davis Hanson - Is the "War on Terror" a True War?

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Description: Complete video at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=964 Author and nationally syndicated columnist Victor Davis Hanson challenges the idea that the Bush Administration's "War on Terror" is not a true war. ----- Victor Davis Hanson speaks about "Iraq and Beyond." This event was part of the Hoover Institution's Spring Retreat 2007. Victor Davis Hanson is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, a professor emeritus at California University, Fresno, and a nationally syndicated columnist for Tribune Media Services. He was a full-time farmer before joining CSU Fresno, in 1984 to initiate a classics program. In 1991, he was awarded an American Philological Association Excellence in Teaching Award, which is given yearly to the country's top undergraduate teachers of Greek and Latin. Hanson was a National Endowment for the Humanities fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California (1992-93), a visiting professor of classics at Stanford University (1991-92), a recipient of the Eric Breindel Award for opinion journalism (2002), and an Alexander Onassis Fellow (2001) and was named alumnus of the year of the University of California, Santa Cruz (2002). He was also the visiting Shifrin Chair of Military History at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland (2002-3). He received the Manhattan Institute's Wriston Lectureship in 2004, and the 2006 Nimitz Lectureship in Military History at UC Berkeley in 2006.
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schrankage ::: Favorites It's not the "terrorists" that achieved the curtailment of enlightenment, but the lack of enlightenment in our media, and society itself. Were we devoted to true liberty and freedom, instead of half-truths and deceptive 30 second TV spots, and one liners, we would defeat the enemies of liberty, and do so with our ideas, not bombs. 07-05-31 03:33:16 _____________________________________________________
philippschuetz ::: Favorites The terrorists attack us because the tv spots you talk about are already undermining the islamic dictatorships and the islamists moral. So do McDonalds, CocaCola and the Internet. Terror attacks are the last ressort of a dying culture. 07-07-16 23:54:02 _____________________________________________________
PersianGuileAgain ::: Favorites "Were we devoted to true liberty and freedom, instead of half-truths and deceptive 30 second TV spots, and one liners, we would defeat the enemies of liberty, and do so with our ideas, not bombs." Sounds more like the isolationist manifesto than a reasonable foreign policy. What historical examples can you give of such a stance by any world power? 07-06-17 01:18:58 _____________________________________________________
Monkey2ewok ::: Favorites Victor Davis Hanson is the man. I wish I could meet him someday. 07-06-19 00:09:22 _____________________________________________________