VDH compares Iraq to past US wars

Another perspective check by Victor Davis Hanson on the current situation in Iraq.

The high-stakes war to stabilize the fragile democracy in Iraq is a serious, costly and controversial business. But so have been most conflicts in American history. We need a little more humility and knowledge of our past — and a lot less hysteria, name-calling and obsession with our present selves.

Tolerance of everything is not good

A very good Victor Davis Hanson article about how the decline of religiosity in the west and the sometimes misused principle of tolerance have lead to a situation where we do not take ourselves and our values seriously and neither do the Islamic jihadists.