11 Replies to “An Interview with Victor Davis Hanson”

  2. Been reading VDH since the 90’s.
    If you want to know what made the West, and destroys the West, over and over, read his “The Other Greeks”. Its about what makes countries great, and its not the elite. They are just opportunistic mold who show up after the work is done.
    Buy it on ABEBOOKS( dot)com and support local booksellers.

  3. VDH is brilliant.
    Interview is well worth listening to.

    Just finished 2 hours of consecutive sda videos. Darkhorse is good too.

    Unprecedented!
    But it’s Sunday morning on the nth day of house arrest. Time don’t mean nothin’ anymore.

  4. Hanson always does a balanced presentation.. but on one of his other talks, I quibble with his understanding of Curtis LeMay … Ref: Curtis LeMay autobiography

    1. LeMay was not well educated when he joined the Army Air Corp formation …he found himself at a disadvantage to other members and took time to go back to college between service breaks and got a Mechanical Engineering degree….He was an excellent navigator when Air Navigation was not well understood.

    2. The high altitude bombing of Germany was the result of low altitude losses. The Germans developed bigger guns for high altitude, but also keep their smaller guns…Japan had the Big Guns only & low altitude bombing was easy…,

    3. LeMay did not realize that parts manufacturing in Japan was City wide until after the First A bomb… The Machine lathes sticking out of burned out houses.. The factories were doing the assembly & easy to repair after a bombing raid…. Yes his low level incendiary bombing of cities would have destroyed Japan manufacturing , but he didn’t know it until after the A Bomb damage assessment

    JMHO

    1. The image of moving all of the heavy bombers from the victorious European theatre in order to carry out 24/7 napalming of Japanese cities in lieu of the two atom bombs as LeMay proposed is horrendous. The nukes didn’t save American lives, they saved Japanese lives.

      Great interview of VDH as always.

      1. Read “Hell To Pay”.
        Japan then was a cult the Nazis could only aspire to. The closer to Japan the higher the death rates. Many in the Japanese Army especially were ready to have killed every man woman and child rather than suffer foreign occupation of holy, mystic Japan.
        Other than A-Bombs, the options were continued bombing( LeMay said he was running out of targets at 100k/night killed ), Navy starvation requiring 1,000 ships for the next 3-4 years, or invasion at 1 million casualties and possible extinction of the class 1940-2 US high school males.
        The war ended easy.

    2. Famous LeMay quote:

      “Killing Japanese didn’t bother me very much at that time… I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.”

      Area bombing “worked” mostly because low altitude “precision” bombing wasn’t precise at all. They had no other choice.

      Despite what Monday morning QB histrionics and revisionists argue, including the NFB clowns, who’s other claim to defame was their incompetent ignorance around Bill Bishop, and their utter cock-up in claiming he faked his VC winning mission.

      OT to be sure but this sums up Lemay’s misunderstood understanding (yes he did want to bomb the hell out of the Cubans):

      “Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you’re not a good soldier.”

  6. “The Corona Project– I think we can make it”…
    (as in get through it sucessfully)
    V.D.H.

    Darn right!
    Bravo! Great interview.

  7. Read VDH’s book; succinct and brilliant, a great American companion to Stephen Harper’s tome, “Right Here, Right Now.”

    Both do a great job of describing the establishment swamp and articulates why they’re hostile to the citizens’ hopes and values.

    As Harper notes, they are the “Anywheres,” able to work and live where they wish, not bound by or caring about local communities or those who live there, aka the “Somewheres,” who are bound by their local relationships, so who must bear the brunt of self-serving elitist policies and their corrupted propagators, the disastrous results of which the self-appointed beautiful, cool elites have insulated themselves from within their gated communities, taxpayer funded security, lifestyle and financial mobility.

    Trump will never act like those establishment swamp swillers; he loathes them. They cannot contain him because he refuses to play by their Alinsky rules, designed to keep them in power, not inform, lead or ameliorate the plight of their fellow citizens.

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