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Truth Victorious
- Pravda zvítězí
Oderint dum metuant—“Let
them hate us, so long as they fear us”
“This is the Perfect War. They want
to die, and we want to kill them.” -Sgt. Major Henry Bergeron, 1st Marine
Division, Iraq
"You have to understand the Arab mind,"
Capt. Todd Brown, a company commander with the Fourth Infantry Division,
said as he stood outside the gates of Abu Hishma, Iraq. "The only thing
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The Anglosphere
Anglosphere
Primer |
"Let's get real. What the people who blew up the Red Cross and the Iraqi
police fear is not that we're going to permanently occupy Iraq. They fear
that we're going to permanently change Iraq. The great irony is that the
Baathists and Arab dictators are opposing the U.S. in Iraq because —
unlike many leftists — they understand exactly what this war is about.
They understand that U.S. power is not being used in Iraq for oil, or
imperialism, or to shore up a corrupt status quo, as it was in Vietnam and
elsewhere in the Arab world during the cold war. They understand that this
is the most radical-liberal revolutionary war the U.S. has ever launched —
a war of choice to install some democracy in the heart of the Arab-Muslim
world" - Thomas Friedman, Oct. 30, 2003
"It's been said that those who live near a police station find it hard to
believe in the triumph of violence, in the same way free peoples might be
tempted to take for granted the orderly societies we have come to know.
Europe's peaceful unity is one of the great achievements of the last
half-century. And because European countries now resolve differences
through negotiation and consensus, there's sometimes an assumption that
the entire world functions in the same way. But let us never forget how
Europe's unity was achieved -- by allied armies of liberation and NATO
armies of defense. And let us never forget, beyond Europe's borders, in a
world where oppression and violence are very real, liberation is still a
moral goal, and freedom and security still need defenders." -
President Bush
Whitehall Palace in London, Nov. 19, 2003
"As one of the Islamic fanatics who inspired al-Qa'eda said: "We
are not trying to negotiate with you. We are trying to destroy you." The Islamic
terrorists who destroyed the World Trade Center, those who bombed Bali, and
whoever it is in Spain who has now demonstrated a comparable appetite for
indiscriminate killing, do not have specific political goals, in the way that
terrorists such as the IRA or Eta have. They wish to destroy the whole basis of Western society - secular
democracy, individual liberty, equality before the law, toleration, and
pluralism - and replace it with a theocracy based on a perverted and dogmatic
interpretation of the Koran. That is why the suggestion that we should try to negotiate with
such terrorists is so fatuous: there is nothing whatever to negotiate about. It
has been suggested that, had Spain not backed America's invasion of Iraq, then
the bombs in Madrid would not have happened. It has also been claimed that our
Government could save Britain from further depredations by withdrawing troops
from Iraq and condemning America's presence in that country. But al-Qa'eda did not kill nearly 3,000 people in New York in
order to persuade President Bush to change American foreign policy, and the idea
that we could prevent the next al-Qa'eda outrage by any change in policy at all
is just silly. Yesterday The Guardian published a leading article providing an
object lesson in how not to tackle this global threat. "We need to get beyond
them and us, the good guys and the bad guys," opined the newspaper - which also
called for "an international conference to bridge the divide between Muslim and
Christian communities". The idea that we should try to appease the terrorists is wrong in
every respect. It would not protect us, for nothing acts as a greater incentive
to terrorists than the realisation that their target is weak and frightened. And
it would only weaken the institutions we are trying to protect, and demonstrate
to the terrorists that we are - as they frequently allege - too decadent and
craven to defend the way of life to which we claim to be attached." - Sunday
Telegraph Editorial, 14 March 2004
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The Axis of Evil:
Syria
Iran
France
North
Korea
House of
Saud
The BBC
The
Guardian
The Nation
Howard
Dean |
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3/11 Europe's Second Munich?
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Terrorism Has Won a Mighty Victory in Spain by David Frum |
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These Guys Want to Kill Us
Anyway by Mark Steyn |
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A Greater Challenge? by Lee Harris |
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Belmont Club: The Dark Night of Spirit |
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Sunday Telegraph: World at War |
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Betrayed
by the Left's Callous Indifference by Nick Cohen |
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By Walid
Phares |
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The New Fascism by Denis
MacShane |
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The Year of Living Dangerously
by Michael Ignatieff |
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One Nation Under God by Mark Steyn |
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Intruders in the House
of Saud by Elizabeth Rubin Part 1 |
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Intruders in the House
of Saud by Jennifer Senior Part 2 |
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Prime Minister Blair Warns of Continuing
Global Terror Threat |
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The Coming of Nemesis
by Victor Davis Hanson |
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The Origins of Occidentalism by
Ian Buruma |
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The War Against Israel and Growing European Nationalism
by Ilka Schroder
MEP |
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The Deal by Seymour Hersh |
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The End of Europe?
by Niall Ferguson |
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Thicker than Oil
Victor Davis Hanson |
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Betrayed by Europe: An Expatriate’s
Lament by Nidra Poller |
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Seeds of Revolution By Avishai Margalit, Ian Buruma |
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Just Imagine...
by Victor Davis Hanson |
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Why Did so Many Have to Die in
Bam? by David Aaronovitch |
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The
Pundits in Love With Doom and Gloom by Mark
Steyn |
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The Western Disease
by Victor Davis Hanson |
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Democracy and the
Enemies of Freedom by Bernard Lewis |
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Tiananmen in
London By Frederick Turner |
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More Humiliation Please
by Bret Stephens |
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Death of a
Fantasy by David Pryce-Jones |
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At least the Europeans Are Neutral,
Not Enemies by Victor Davis Hanson |
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Ceaucescu
of the Arabs by Walid Phares
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A
Tigris Chronicle by Fouad Ajami |
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Got the
Bastard
by David Warren |
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The
Bike-Path Left by Mark Steyn |
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Why Arabs Lose Wars by Norvell De Atkine |
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By the
left... about turn
by Nick
Cohen |
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A
Fetish of Candor by David Brooks |
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Dragon Down
by Amir Taheri |
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A Tyrant
Humbled by Ralph Peters |
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December 13, 2003: Ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein captured alive by
coalition forces after a manhunt of more than eight months.
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"We Got Him" - Comments by L. Paul Bremer in
Baghdad |
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President Bush
Addresses Nation on the Capture of Saddam Hussein
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The Saudi Connection - How billions in oil money spawned a global terror
network by David E. Kaplan
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The Return of Anti-Semitism by Craig
Horowitz |
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Critical Mass by Victor
Davis Hanson |
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A Fetish of Candor by
David Brooks |
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Seven
Days Of Hatred by
Amanda Ripley | Gagny
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Geneva: A Blow To Peace by Amir
Taheri |
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The Perils of Soft Power by Amir Taheri |
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December 14, 2003 - On a snowy day in
Times Square, Jeff Gump of Jacksonville, Fla., reacted to President Bush's
speech.
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A Real War -
Fighting The Worst Fascists Since Hitler by
Victor Davis Hanson |
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It's
Been a Good Year by Mark Steyn |
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The Literal Left by
Christopher Hitchens |
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As Rome Starts to
Smoulder by Andrew Stuttaford |
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The Decline of France
by Christopher Caldwell |
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The words 'We got
him,' spoken by U.S. CPA administrator L. Paul Bremer at a press
conference announcing the capture of former Iraqi President Saddam
Hussein, are illuminated on the air traffic control tower at Basrah
International Airport, in Southern Iraq, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2003. The
message was written by the employees of the control tower.
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President
Bush Discusses Iraq Policy at Whitehall Palace in London |
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If It Weren't for America, You
Wouldn't be Free to Protest by Victor Davis Hanson |
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Bush in
London by David Warren |
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This War Has Rules All Its Own by
Victor Davis Hanson |
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To Hell With
Sympathy by
Charles Krauthammer |
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London
Calling - Bush Ambushed by Andrew Sullivan |
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Same Tactics, New Target by Amir
Taheri |
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Multilateral Mantras by Victor Davis
Hanson |
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These
Five Regimes Must Go by Mark Steyn |
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December 14, 2003: Iraqi people celebrate the capture of ouster dictator
Saddam Hussein at al-Fardus square in Baghdad, holding a placard signed by
'the honest people of Iraq' reading 'Congratulations, congratulations to
all honest Iraqis, shame on Aflaqism,' referring to Michel Aflaq, one of
the founders of the secular pan-Arab Baath party.
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Case Closed by Stephen Hayes
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The Truth Will Set Us Free
by Victor Davis Hanson |
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How To Make It Happen by Amir Taheri |
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President Bush
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by Paul Hollander |
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Europeans Are Worse Than
Cockroaches by Mark Steyn |
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Restating the Case for War by
Christopher Hitchens |
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Europe's Public Enemy No.1 by
Daniel Schwammenthal |
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Only U.S. Strength
Can Defeat Islamism by David Gutmann |
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A Burden Too Heavy to Put Down
by David Brooks |
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Among the Bourgeoisophobes by David Brooks
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Anti-Americanism Revisited by Paul Hollander |
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The new anti-Americanism by Roger
Kimball
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Signs that we're winning: Explosions in the Saudi Arabia not New York or
London. The war has returned to the land of its birth. The true battle
between Islamo-fascism and modernity can no longer, thankfully, be focused
on the "infidels." Fires burning after an explosion in Riyadh, Saudi
Arabia, Nov. 9, 2003. A huge explosion gutted a Riyadh compound housing
foreigners and Saudis.
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“Those Jews” - Count on Things To Get Even
Uglier |
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The Controversy of Israel
by Bret Stephens |
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It's No Vietnam by Thomas Friedman |
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The Unimaginable Price of
Failure by Fredrick Kempe |
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Why History Has No
End Victor Davis
Hanson |
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The End of the West? by Thomas Freidman |
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Take the Fight to the Terrorists
by Donald H. Rumsfeld |
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The Arab World is Running Out of Alternatives
to Democracy by Victor Davis Hanson |
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Obscene Excuses by Amir Taheri |
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U.S.
Army tanks patrol Baghdad, Nov 2, 2003
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Fascism is Back...Big Time
by Michael Ledeen |
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The Vision Thing by
Victor Davis Hanson |
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Our Media Jihadis by Bret Stephens |
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Not so Innocent by Ralph Peters |
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Legends of the Fall
by Victor Davis Hanson |
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Islamic Anti-Semitism
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Pakistani Prime Minister Jamali meets with
Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah in Islamabad October 19, 2003. Our "friends"
the Saudis and the Pakistanis = Disingenuous:
Not straightforward or candid; insincere or calculating: “an ambitious,
disingenuous, philistine, and hypocritical operator, who... exemplified...
the most disagreeable traits of his time.” Generally, “insincere”
and a synonym of cynical or calculating.
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Why the media botches it by Bret
Stephens |
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The Poisoned Well By Fouad Ajami |
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Israel, Palestine, and the Return
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The Alternative by David Frum |
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Bigotry in Print. Crowds Chant Murder. Something's Changed.
by Paul Berman |
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The Enemy is Still Betting
Against Us by Victor Davis Hanson |
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Cairo:
Egyptian students of al-Azhar Universty, the highest Islamic Sunni
institution, flash V-signs and copies of the Quran, as they shout anti-U.S.
and Israel slogans inside their campus Sunday, Oct.19, 2003
= Delusion: A false, fixed,
odd, or unusual belief firmly held by the patient. The belief is not
ordinarily accepted by other members of the person’s culture or
subculture. There are delusions of paranoia (others are plotting against
them), grandiose delusions (exaggerated ideas of one's importance or
identity), and somatic delusions (a healthy person believing that he/she
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What if it works? A Liberating Experience by Christopher Hitchens |
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Statement by David Kay on the Interim
Progress Report on the Activities of the Iraq Survey Group (ISG) |
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Inside the
Islamic Mafia by Christopher Hitchens |
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War and Wishful
Thinking by Lee Harris |
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An 'Ism' for All Season by Paul
Johnson |
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On the Right
Side of History by Victor Davis Hanson |
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A KC-10A Extender refuels an F-15E Strike
Eagle on a combat patrol over Iraq.
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The U.N.: Now Less Than Ever by Roger
Scruton |
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Profiles and
Courage by Lee Harris |
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For its intellectuals,
France falters by John Vinocur |
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Europe's Utopian Hangover
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Edward Said and Ali Shariati didn’t
get the West by Amir Taheri |
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2001 Nights
- The end of the Orientalist critique By Charles Paul
Freund |
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Orientalism by Ibn Warraq |
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Edward Said’s “Orientalism revisited” by Keith
Windschuttle
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Beyond 'Nation-Building' by Donald
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New York - World Trade Center - 9/11/03
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A Genealogy of Anti-Americanism
by James W. Ceaser
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The Anti-Anti-Americans by Adam
Gopnik |
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The Iraq -- Al Qaeda
Connections by Richard Miniter |
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We
Have Sorely Hurt Our Enemies by Victor Davis Hanson |
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By Larry
Elder |
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Against
Neo-Carterism by Lee Harris |
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Our War With France by Thomas Friedman |
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War in the Absence of Strategic Clarity
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The Thin Veneer of Civilization:
Eternal Lessons From a Hot and Hairy Month
by Victor Davis Hanson |
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The Falseness of Anti-Americanism
by Fouad
Ajami
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We're Winning This War by Mark Steyn |
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The Perils of Lite Anti-Americanism
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Put the Iraqis in Charge by Bernard
Lewis |
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Saddam's al Qaeda Connection by Stephen Hayes |
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Secretary of Stubbornness by Tom Donnelly
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Who would believe how much we’ve accomplished? by Victor Davis Hanson |
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The war on terror has
gone much better than anyone would have expected
by Amir
Taheri |
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Flypaper - A Strategy Unfolds by Andrew Sullivan |
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The Disgrace of the BBC by Josh Chafetz
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Support the Zionist Settler Colonialist Entity...
Here and here and
here... |

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The Cosmopolitan Illusion by Lee Harris
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Telling the Truth in Iraq
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The Dysfunctional House of Saud by Stephen
Schwartz
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Our True Enemies by Ralph Peters |
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Dinner With the Sayyids by
Thomas Friedman |
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Worry
About the Home Front - How We
Collapse by Victor Davis Hanson |
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Failures of Nerve by Roger
Kimball |
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The Politics of Envy By Paul Hollander |
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The treason of the
intellectuals and “the undoing of thought” by Roger
Kimball |
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Why Do
Intellectuals Oppose Capitalism? by Robert Nozick |
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Notes on Nationalism by George Orwell |
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'This Was a Good Thing to Do' by Paul
Gigot |
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They think Bush is worse than the
Baghdad bullies by Andrew Sullivan |
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Israel Without
Apology by Sol
Stern |
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Vice
President Cheney's Remarks on the War on Terror at AEI |
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Hysteria Americana by Victor Davis Hanson |
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Prime Minister Tony Blair's Speech to
Congress |
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Bizarro
Broadcasting Company by Denis Boyles |
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Smelling Blood by David Warren |
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The Return of Balance in Foreign Policy by Victor Davis Hanson |
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No
Flies on Bush by Mark Steyn |
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The Crackup of the Arab Tyrannies? by Amir Taheri
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Iraqi
children push a U.S. Army soldier on a bicycle in the town of Falluja on 2
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From the evil
empire to the empire for liberty by Paul Johnson |
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War’s Bitter Laws
by Victor Davis Hanson |
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Where Hatred Trumps Bread by
Cynthia Ozick |
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The Anti-Americans by Fouad Ajami |
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The New Fellow-Traveling by David
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Iraqis doing something they could not do before:
protesting, July 2003 |
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Saddam's Bombs? We'll Find Them by
Kenneth Pollack |
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Winning After
All by Victor Davis Hanson |
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Remedial History Lessons by Ken
Adelman |
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From Tragedy to Farce by Roger Kimball |
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The Hypocrisy of Noam Chomsky by Keith
Windschuttle
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Dribble by
David Warren |
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Middle East
Tragedies by Victor Davis Hanson |
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Freedom & Dignity By Amir
Taheri |
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Conventional ignorance about the present
war Victor Davis Hanson |
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