VDH on How Wrong The Left Is
The Global Throng
Why the world’s elites gnash their teeth.

I don't think there is currently an author who more than Victor Davis Hansen so clearly states the conservative foreign policy position, and, when I'm surrounded by lefty retreatnicks, makes me think "Right! That's what I believe. Perhaps I'm not insane." Krauthammer, now that I think of it, would rank with him.

Here are highlights, but read it all:

First, there is a tremendous sense of impotence. Somehow sharp looks alone, clever repartee, long lists of books read and articles cited, or global travel do not automatically result in commensurate power. So what exactly is wrong with these stupid people of Nebraska who would elect a dense, Christian-like George Bush when a Gore Vidal, George Soros, Ben Affleck, Bruce Springsteen, or Ted Kennedy warned them not to?
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Second, political powerlessness follows from ideological exhaustion. Communism and Marxism are dead. Stalin and Mao killed over 80 million and did not make omelets despite the broken eggs. Castro and North Korea are not classless utopias but thugocracies run by megalomaniac dictators who the world prays will die any minute. The global Left knows that the Cold War is over and was lost by the Left, and that Eastern Europeans and Central Americans probably cherish the memory of a Ronald Reagan far more than that of a Francois Mitterrand or Willy Brandt.

Is it possible that some middle-of-the-road liberals might read him sufficiently to realize that their ideology and their party have long ago driven off a cliff? - served up by Doctor Bean @ 3:28 PM