Victor Davis Hanson: The Danger of Dumbing Down American Students 

In this episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Victor Davis Hanson explains why the ignorance of American students keeps him up at night more than the threat of radical Islam.  
 
This content was created prior to Hanson’s major surgery on Dec. 30. 
 
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of a segment from today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to VDH’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes.   

JACK FOWLER: Yeah, we’re worried about the spreading growth of Islam versus the ignorance of America’s students. I mean, pure ignorance of, pure lack of knowledge, dumbness as products of our educational system. 

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: That’s another good question. I think it falls into the same category of overt versus insidious. And so, this time I’ll do the insidious.  

Well, I’ll do the overt first because 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 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.  

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 

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