The fact is that we have been consistent in a predictable 60-year commitment to national security, while our friends and former enemies - by intent or default - have followed different paths since 1989. We stayed mostly the same as they became hypopowers that, to take a small example, would and could do nothing should a madman in Korea wish to kill millions.
Victor Davis HansonIn the case of [Donald] Trump, he was able to tell people that elites live in gated communities, where they have walls around their home.
Victor Davis HansonStates are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.
Victor Davis HansonObama's immigration legacy will be the juxtaposition of his serial insistence that he was not a king or an emperor, and could not contravene the Constitution by granting a blanket amnesty, with his efforts to do just that when it was no longer politically inexpedient. I don't think a president has ever quite so habitually warned the country of the dangers that would soon emanate from himself.
Victor Davis HansonI'm kind of old-fashioned because I was born and live in the same house for six generations.
Victor Davis HansonI wish I could attribute the absence of any conventional Arab offensive in the last 20 years to a change of political climate or a willingness to abide by past accords. But unfortunately it is more likely that the Egyptians or Syrians concluded that the next time their tanks headed to Tel Aviv, there was nothing stopping the counterassaults from ending up in downtown Cairo or Damascus.
Victor Davis Hanson