01698nam a22002417a 450000500170000000800410001702000150005804000070007304100080008008200220008810000240011024500600013426000520019430000330024652010410027965000270132065000210134765000190136865000160138765000090140365000180141270000260143020211211101031.0211209b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a0812972732  cAL  aeng  223a327.730bHANB  aVictor Davis Hanson  aBetween War and Peace: Lessons From Afghanistan to Iraq  aNew York:bRandom House Trade Paperback,c2004.  axviii,282 p.bPB,c20x13 cm.  aIn his acclaimed collection An Autumn of War, the scholar and military historian Victor Davis Hanson expressed powerful and provocative views of September 11 and the ensuing war in Afghanistan. Now, in these challenging new essays, he examines the worlds ongoing war on terrorism, from America to Iraq, from Europe to Israel, and beyond.
In direct language, Hanson portrays an America making progress against Islamic fundamentalism but hampered by the self-hatred of elite academics at home and the cynical self-interest of allies abroad. He sees a new and urgent struggle of evil against good, one that can fail only if we convince ourselves that our enemies fight because of something we, rather than they, did.
Whether its a clear-cut defense of Israel as a secular democracy, a denunciation of how the U.N. undermines the U.S., a plea to drastically alter our alliance with Saudi Arabia, or a perception that postwar Iraq is reaching a dangerous tipping point, Hansons arguments have the shock of candor and the fire of conviction.   aInternational Relation  aAnti Americanism  aForeign Policy  aMiddle East  aIraq  aUnited States  aHANSON (Victor Davis)