Why the West wins wars.

From: New Criterion | Date: April 1, 2002| Author: Windschuttle, Keith | Copyright information

Last October, when many liberal commentators in the media were predicting that America and its allies would end up in a quagmire in Afghanistan--"another Vietnam," they foretold--they would have been better advised to ponder the statistics compiled by Victor Davis Hanson about the previous conflict between a Western and an Islamic power. (1)

On January 17, 1991, Hanson reminds us in his book Carnage and Culture, a coalition of U.S. allies faced the veteran army of Iraq, ...

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