Victor Davis Hanson vs. D'Souza
Over at National Review, Victor Davis Hanson takes a classical liberal war club to Dinesh D'Souza's argument that real conservatives should "give up on leftists in America and Europe who will never join our side and instead find common cause with the traditional Muslims who share many of our values and can actually help us defeat radical Islam."
Replies Hanson:
What does "give up on" really mean? I am no big fan of a Russ Feingold or a Howard Dean, but as fellow Americans I find more resonance with them than with conservative Muslims abroad who, at least currently, do not approve of religious tolerance, or an equality of women, or freedom of speech and expression. Personally in this war I prefer to make "common cause" with the atheist leftist Christopher Hitchens or Al Gore's former running mate, Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Lieberman, or a liberal Tom Lantos (also named as a "domestic insurgent" on the D'Souza list) than with someone abroad who embraces sharia law.
