Radical Islam can't hurt the United States abroad.

They don't have the technological wherewithal to do it.

And every time that we've mistakenly gone into an Islamic country and not done well, whether it's Afghanistan or Iraq,

the reason was, is that there were necessary restraints or unnecessary, whichever way you look at it, that we didn't use the full extent of our power.

And we could, in other words, we fought that battle on their terms, not ours.

We didn't do what the Russians did.

When they wanted to subdue Chechnya, they just leveled Grozny.

So what I'm getting at, if you wanted to get into an existential war with radical Islam,

you could, and you could win it.

In a cost-benefit analysis, maybe it wouldn't be worth it.

And a moral, maybe it would be questionable.

If you were in extremist, you could do it.

Well, hello, ladies, and hello, gentlemen, welcome to Victor Davis-Hansson, in his own words. I'm Jack Fowler, the host.

You're here to get wisdom from Victor Davis Hanson, who is the Martin and Ely Anderson senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and he's a senior contributor to the Daily Signal, which is the happy home of this podcast.

We are recording before Christmas.

It's actually Christmas Eve.

And God bless. Hope everyone has had a happy Christmas and a happy New Year.

Because this episode will be up on, I think, Victor, January 9th. And this is the third of four special episodes we're doing on issues that keep you up at night.

And we have 16 issues and Victor on the previous two, excuse me, of these special episodes has helped winnow down the Sari 16.

I forget what we called them exactly. And now we're dealing with the hate eight. The hate eight. So we have eight issues. We're going to pair them off, two against each other. So that means four topics. And we're going to get to the first one, which are rogue nukes versus the ruination of our cities, and we'll get pictures take on which of those

is the worst when we come back from these important messages.

Hey folks, if you've studied history enough, you start to see a pattern. Nations don't lose

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