2219 It's an odd war
says Victor Davis Hanson. "It is an odd war, because the side that I think is losing garners all the press, whether by blowing up the great golden dome of the Askariya shrine in Samarra, or by blowing up an American each day. Yet we hear nothing of the other side that is ever so slowly, shrewdly undermining the enemy."Read his latest assessment of the insurgency, what our media area ignoring, what is our will to win and see this through here.
"Can-do Americans courageously go about their duty in Iraq — mostly unafraid that a culture of 2,000 years, the reality of geography, the sheer forces of language and religion, the propaganda of the state-run Arab media, and the cynicism of the liberal West are all stacked against them. Iraq may not have started out as the pivotal front in the war between democracy and fascism, but it has surely evolved into that. After visiting the country, I think we can and will win, but just as importantly, unlike in 2003-04, there does not seem to be much of anything we should be doing there that in fact we are not."
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Hi. Just wandered on in, and thought your blog was rather nice.
I dunno about VDH. I mean, I know we're doing good over there, and that most of the arguments advanced against the War on Terror are conspiracy theory.
But even the US doing good and the Left being wrong isn't enough, when all is said and done, to make the case we need made. America stands for something really deep, and maybe that something can be found in Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, and most certainly the absence of that something is plaguing our efforts, and even the best of our rhetoric.
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