VDH - America's Historian in Chief

Interesting interview of Victor Davis Hanson by the American Legion Magazine. This maybe the key thought from the interview:

Promoting democracy may be easily caricatured and hard to implement, but the American military has embraced it with fervor and is pulling it off.

Another thought to keep things in perspective:

In fact, for all the tragedy of our combat dead, the U.S. military has lost less in battle than half the number butchered on 9/11.