From the print and online editions of the nation's premier urban-policy magazine http://www.city-journal.org/cj-comments.xml?story=7418 Manhattan Institute How much of that can change in only 53 weeks. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7418#19431 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7418#19431 Mon, 24 Sep 2012 16:31:09 EDT Set your own life time easier get the loan and everything you need. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7418#12222 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7418#12222 Sat, 24 Dec 2011 11:18:06 EST ZHQQMTSKRP parka canada goose SASQYMCJBG http://www.aemoya.com http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7418#12062 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7418#12062 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 04:08:11 EST RKTUWKVRIB canada goose yorkville EHLTNMFILC http://www.arcadian-design.net http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7418#11819 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7418#11819 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 07:05:59 EST RBKRNDDDZZ http://cheapuggslippers.weebly.com/| QIQZIFDNSM ugg classic short boots MDXZANTCXZ http://uggbootssaleukcheap.webeden.co.uk/ RWOTTYJZNN ugg boots cheap SKCYWCPEIU [url=http://baileybuttonuggboots.webeden.co.uk/]ugg bailey button boots[/url] http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7418#10850 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7418#10850 Sun, 30 Oct 2011 07:17:47 EDT Mahna@ "The resilient argument is not only bullshit, it masks the horrible chaos the Left has wrought. 9/11 means shit to Liberals and to a large number of people." The resilient part is true. The western world did not come apart at the seams as Osama bin Laden had hoped. The world is not in chaos but is more globalized and interconnected than ever. New York City, especially in the financial area where the terrorists attacked occurred, is more vibrant than ever. And democracy is still marching on, so much so that it sparked the 'Arab Spring'. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7418#9792 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7418#9792 Mon, 12 Sep 2011 13:48:20 EDT 3000 "Americans" were not murdered in the World Trade Center/s or Sept. 11 attacks - the murdered victims were from more than 90 countries !!! http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7418#9698 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7418#9698 Thu, 08 Sep 2011 23:20:39 EDT 'the Islamic terrorists and their authoritarian sponsors who would destroy it do not." Have you flown lately? Did you ever think a cancerous 95 year old woman with soiled diapers would be considered a threat? Have you seen newspaper editors publishing cartoons of Allah, lately? Did you ever think the US would release Gitmo prisoners, only to see them back in the war zone? Did you ever think the man who represented Gitmo prisoners would one day head the Justice Department? The resilient argument is not only bullshit, it masks the horrible chaos the Left has wrought. 9/11 means shit to Liberals and to a large number of people. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7418#9697 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7418#9697 Thu, 08 Sep 2011 22:17:25 EDT 'the Islamic terrorists and their authoritarian sponsors who would destroy it do not." Have you flown lately? Did you ever think a cancerous 95 year old woman with soiled diapers would be considered a threat? Have you seen newspaper editors publishing cartoons of Allah, lately? Did you ever think the US would release Gitmo prisoners, only to see them back in the war zone? Did you ever think the man who represented Gitmo prisoners would one day head the Justice Department? The resilient argument is not only bullshit, it masks the horrible chaos the Left has wrought. 9/11 means shit to Liberals and to a large number of people. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7418#9696 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7418#9696 Thu, 08 Sep 2011 22:17:12 EDT Jim from Maine: you're right, I don't get it. "Knock your block off" isn't a very new rule, the US have never been sitting back, as far as I know. During the invasion in Afghanistan, US troops had to deal with Taliban who were using weapons provided to them by Americans in the war against the Sovjets. How did that help those troops? And Iraq is one big mess, everybody is a loser in that war. The US don't have to be friends with every country around the world. But continually emphasizing American supremacy and busting other peoples doors just spreads anger and frustration. Perhaps it makes US citizens feel better the short term, but on the long term it's just bad for trade and national security. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7418#9680 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7418#9680 Thu, 08 Sep 2011 08:18:08 EDT Yeah Vic things are going great and we love paying for all these foreign wars because we find them such wise investments. Forget rebuilding our own country. Let's go invade Libya next. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7418#9674 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7418#9674 Thu, 08 Sep 2011 01:43:07 EDT Willem, Arab tyrants have long slaughtered their own people. Now there is at least some hope of freedom. Totalitarianism is dead in Iraq; look there to find people who "look upon the US as a friend". We've won in Iraq, despite Obama's fecklessness. You simply don't get it: we'll not sit back and just wait to "take it" any longer. We'll come "knock your block off " first. New rules. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7418#9673 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7418#9673 Thu, 08 Sep 2011 01:21:34 EDT Thank you, Mr. Victor Davis Hanson, thank you. It is wonderful to read a cogent piece of writing! http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7418#9654 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7418#9654 Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:44:35 EDT I'm a European (Dutch), which makes me a near-communist by American standards almost by default. But while I think American liberalism can be hopelessly unpractical and expensive, I'm always so worried by the foreign policy proposed by American conservatives. Sure, you can argue that the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq (and effectively also Pakistan) have kept the US free from Al Qaida attacks since 2001. But what does that mean to those tens (hundreds?) of thousands people in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan who lost their loved ones? Their number, the majority of them innocent civilians, is far greater than American casualties. Those people will be especially grieved when they hear that the US government engaged in "preventive detention" and "enhanced interrogations". That's precisely the kind of practice and obfuscation they hated their former dictators for. Ten years after 9/11, who in the middle east looks upon the US as a friend? Don't get me wrong, the 9/11 attacks were the most horrible thing that happened to the US since WOII. But I think that the US have created more frustration and anger in the muslim than there was in 2001. And I'm afraid that can only damage the US. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7418#9653 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7418#9653 Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:16:36 EDT "In lockstep, his supporters ceased their outcries about lost civil liberties." I love it when the RINO-hunting right talks about "lockstep." http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7418#9642 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7418#9642 Wed, 07 Sep 2011 11:44:09 EDT Dear Sir, I just finished the PBS documentary (Empires: The Greeks - Crucible of Civilization) in which you were interviewed. We are borrowing approximately 40 cents on the dollar to make ends meet. Our overseas empire and the war on terror are draining us in the same way that it drained ancient Greece. We need to rethink the war on terror, our overseas empire, and must return to constitutionally limited government. Moreover, Ron Paul is the only one who is speaking honestly with people regarding our deeply flawed entitlement system. Please consider writing an article on the good doctor. He strikes me as a Socrates-like citizen. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7418#9640 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7418#9640 Wed, 07 Sep 2011 11:18:47 EDT Clawhammer Jack... No torture... Just very uncomfortable..... More die from snowboarding than from waterboarding... http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7418#9636 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7418#9636 Wed, 07 Sep 2011 09:41:35 EDT "In lockstep, his supporters ceased their outcries about lost civil liberties." Speak for yourself. I'll never vote for Obama again. Torture was a stain only on the honor of the people involved until the United States did nothing to punish those responsible. Now torture is a stain on our national honor. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7418#9634 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7418#9634 Wed, 07 Sep 2011 09:23:39 EDT There was an open account with Saddam, and the Iranian army was twice the size of the Iraq army. Simple, deal with the old problem and send a warning to the mullahs at the same time. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7418#9632 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7418#9632 Wed, 07 Sep 2011 08:47:47 EDT "Conventional wisdom following 9/11 insisted..." I never paid him much attention anyway. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7418#9631 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7418#9631 Wed, 07 Sep 2011 08:44:57 EDT osama's one success, - he complained about the islamic loss of anatolia- is islamic 'surge' in turkey http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7418#9626 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7418#9626 Wed, 07 Sep 2011 07:52:53 EDT This is a very arresting sentence that ought to e repeated and repeated and repeated..... ...."When the Bush administration hyped WMD as the real casus belliâ€"and subsequently found none in Iraqâ€"most forgot that Congress had, in bipartisan fashion, voted for war on over 20 other counts as well, all legitimate and unquestioned."... How disgustingly and dismissively short sighted have become all those permitting themselves to be influenced by the leftist news media. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7418#9619 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7418#9619 Tue, 06 Sep 2011 23:36:10 EDT I'm really surprised that a writer of your caliber doesn't even hint that 9/11 couldn't possibly have happened without large u s govet help. All you have to do is read all the material about 9/11 and you would have to believe that we helped it happen! So much for your reputation. Dale http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7418#9616 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7418#9616 Tue, 06 Sep 2011 20:48:53 EDT