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To: Road Walker who wrote (371799)	2/23/2008 5:47:10 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574018

"Who is Victor Hanson and how come he's so stupid?" From the wikipedia.. Iraq War Hanson believes that the Iraq War is a good and worthwhile undertaking and that it has been, with some reservations, a laudable success. Hanson has been called a neoconservative,[3] and Hanson has applied the term to himself on his weblog in a recent blog defending Donald Rumsfeld.[4] Hanson has pro-democratic and pro-Israel views on the Middle East. He believes that the lack of individual and political freedom in many Middle Eastern nations has retarded economic, technological and cultural progress and is the root cause of radical Islamic terrorism.[5] American education and classical studies Hanson co-authored the book Who Killed Homer? with John Heath. This book explores the issue of how classical education has declined in America and what might be done to restore it to its former place. This is important, according to Hanson, because knowledge of the classical Greeks and Romans is necessary if we are to fully understand our own culture. Hanson blames the academic classicists themselves for the decline, accusing them of becoming so infected with political correctness and postmodern thinking that they have lost sight of what he feels the classics truly represent. [edit] Politics Hanson sees rural values as underpinning successful democracies, whether they be of ancient Athens or the modern United States. Although he reports that he is a member of the Democratic Party, he holds conservative or neoconservative views on many issues and has stated that he voted for George W. Bush in the 2000 and 2004 elections.[6] Hanson feels that the current Democratic party does not have a morally responsible approach to foreign policy and no longer addresses the concerns of ordinary Americans, writing: "The Democratic Party reminds me of the Republicans circa 1965 or so—impotent, shrill, no ideas, conspiratorial, reactive, out-of-touch with most Americans, isolationist, and full of embarrassing spokesmen."[7] en.wikipedia.org