I don’t normally read Victor Davis Hanson, who’s a fruitcake even by the standards of National Review Online, but . . .
I love Victor Davis Hanson
Victor Davis Hanson wrote in the National Review that President Barack Obama is governing as though the United States were a university and he its president.
Protestantism, by stressing individual freedom and responsibility toward God, dispensed with the Church hierarchy and thus encouraged Protestants to become more flexible and open toward new ideas
It's not exactly the kind of speech that you would have heard from Henry V or Churchill. And it's not exactly the kind of speech you that heard from George Bush when he announced his surge.
I did not see a Winston Churchill-type performance
OK, but not exactly the Gettysburg Address.
I didn't hear Winston Churchill, I didn't hear Ronald Reagan, I didn't hear George Bush. I didn't hear a level of commitment that instilled in me the confidence that this president realizes the absolute necessity of victory and the devastation it would cause if we're not completely victorious.
Ending the war successfully
Well in the middle of a recession we're probably not going to be able to increase taxes