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

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.

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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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[anything4ai]

I don't like what this guy is saying. Also, he is too smart, and he knows too many historical facts. Why can't he embrace popular simple-minded memes or conspiracy theories like the rest of us? "Its a campaign idea to take away our freedoms", for example, has a nice indignant ring to it.

[anything4ai]

Also, I'm sure gonna avoid clicking that link to the full video. I'm afraid I might learn some history if I listen to any more of this guy.

[pretorious700]

@AimeeViolette Simply and beautifully put. And also true.

[haydencantact]

@anything4ai I agree. He has some nerve actually studying such matters. I think he needs some good old PC discipline.

[l3lip]

@jakefree25

Yes, but political correctness comes into play and we all know how offended religious demagogues get when you trespass on their consecrated grounds - political cartoons sound familiar?

[AimeeViolette]

Al Qaeda does not exist. They are nothing but a bogey man created by the CIA.

Osama is dead.

Benazir Bhutto admitted this without any hesitation. She did not misspeak.

This is why she was murdered.

[msminxy75]

@nakedhands When was the last time you worked female victims? Some from war torn countries? Me, yesterday. I do not hate my home, your life of over consumption will come to an end, you will see that everything you knew as 'freedom' was a farce (perhaps when we lose the world reserve currency). I did not imply against technology, although that reroute the subject quickly. No one people in war have been exempt of war crimes, however I believe we were talking about the US, hence the video...

[nakedhands]

@msminxy75 Hate the USA but your on their internet they started,on their you tube and on their computers they invented and enjoying freedom as a result of their sacrifice.You sound like a petulant teenager unable to grasp were you get everything that you can`t live without.Who do you love tibetan killing chinese,chechen killing russians,arab killing shites/ sunni or african killing african,or maybe eurocentric colonialism.What pure race do you indentify with thats done no wrong mscritical.

[caporalchef4]

It' not the Weremark, it is the Wehrmacht, the German Armed Forces under the Third Reich.

[msminxy75]

In the United States "Freedom= Resources". Americans are as brainwashed as nazis. The US has hosted more crimes against humanity than any other countries added together. US is a young country just hitting puberty and it needs to be grounded! Helping women be free in middle east? shooting a 5 year old muslim in the head then american soldiers gang raping her 14 year old sister over her dead body, dont get more liberating than that. Dont worry 1 guy was charged for it :/

[Frankcastle522]

VDH is awesome. I love this mans logic his idea is so overly thorough.

[Frankcastle522]

@0HippyHunter0 Self intrest is a thing most commonly ignored. Group think whatever that may be destroys logic, that is why true democracy was seen by the Greeks as a form of logic because it gave the individual the idea to choose.