Victor David Hanson never ceases to delight and astonish.
We are witnessing a new hysterical style, in which the Baby Boomer “me
generation” that now runs America jettisons knowledge of the past and
daily proclaims that each new development requires both a radical
solution and another bogeyman to blame for being mean or unfair to them.
We haven’t seen such frenzy since the Y2K sham, when we were warned to stock up on flashlights and bottled water as our nation’s computers would simply shut down on January 1, 2000 — and with them the country itself.
We haven’t seen such frenzy since the Y2K sham, when we were warned to stock up on flashlights and bottled water as our nation’s computers would simply shut down on January 1, 2000 — and with them the country itself.
That's from today. Here's Hanson from 2002.
So a neighborly bit of advice for our Islamic friends
and their spokesmen abroad: topple your pillars of ignorance and the
edifice of your anti-Americanism. Try to seek difficult answers from
within to even more difficult questions without. Do not blame others
for problems that are largely self-created or seek solutions over
here when your answers are mostly at home. Please, think hard about
what you are saying and writing about the deaths of thousands of
Americans and your relationship with the United States. America has
been a friend more often than not to you. But now you are on the
verge of turning its people—who create, not follow, government—into
an enemy: a very angry and powerful enemy that may be yours for a
long, long time to come.
Victor David Hanson makes an IMAX projector look like a pinhole camera. Which we've known for a long time, but watching him inveigh against "hysteria" is actually sort of frightening. He should really just stick to writing about stuff like the wrangling between Axl Rose and Dr. Pepper, where at least his monomaniacal bugtit-looniness wouldn't stand out so much.