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Deal with Dark Ages
This should spark the ol' lighter!
The Neurotic Middle East - Victor Davis Hanson - National Review Online |
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He was off to a good start and then...
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I am a proponent of multi-culturalism. Never the less, I find much of what this fellow has to say compelling. You'll feel no heat from this corner.
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He's a pretty good military historian (if this is the guy I'm thinking of). I think I read a book by him several years ago. Not sure.
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Pretty much spot on, really a good article.
Bot what was his book if you can remember it?
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Might've been this: The Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classical Greece: Victor Davis Hanson,John Keegan: 9780520219113: Amazon.com: Books. I went through a Greek wars period after the movie, "300" came out. Read a lot of interesting histories. Tried Herodotus. Couldn't do it. I ain't a SERIOUS historian. I just play one of PeachParts.
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No argument here either - I as well found the article pretty much spot on - apparently without any kind of agenda or emotional bombast (regardless of the venue it was published in), he's stated in plain English what the bottom line actually is.
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Brilliant article but I'm sure nobody of influence in the West wants to hear it. Hansen was the guy who got himself in trouble some years ago with his concept of "Mexifornia".
- Peter.
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Likely that if such exact words came from the mouth of a candidate for President of the United States, it would be enough to get him elected right there.
(the above disregards the 5 second attention span of the average US voter though).
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The perfect proof of that is reactions to last night's debate. Obama supporters are enraged that he didn't pull out the stops on Romney, and in spite of a completely anti-base move to the middle, Romney supporters are all puffed up and on the attack, smelling blood in the air.
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