Having rather enjoyed and admired Victor Davis Hanson's book on the Peloponnesian War, I was quite disappointed to read his screed on how the Arabs should be more grateful after all we have done for them. Hanson may be right that politics in the Middle East is broken, but he does not seem to be willing to acknowledge how deeply implicated the West has been in the breaking. And it seems churlish for a Classical scholar to deride the intellectual heritage of the people who preserved the writings of the Greeks.
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