"The American people are not naifs who yearn……" — Victor Davis Hanson
"The American people are not naifs who yearn for isolationism, but they are starting to ask some hard questions about the way we have been doing business for 50 years, and it may well be time to grant the French, Canadians, Germans, Turks, South Koreans, and a host of others their wishes for independence from us: polite friendship - but no alliances, no bases, no money, no trade concessions, and no more begging for the privilege of protecting them."
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44 Quotes by Victor Davis Hanson
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I wish I could attribute the absence of any conventional Arab offensive in the last 20 years to a change…
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