Hollywood Drivel

Said Tom Hanks in an interview with TIME:

Back in World War II, we viewed the Japanese as 'yellow, slant-eyed dogs' that believed in different gods. They were out to kill us because our way of living was different. We, in turn, wanted to annihilate them because they were different. Does that sound familiar, by any chance, to what's going on today?"

So WWII, in particular, our fight against the Japanese Empire, was rooted in intolerance for their "different" way of life. We have not learned from our errant, unenlightened ways apparently, because now we're out to annihilate the Muslims, according to master historian Tom Hanks. I think there's a little bit more to it than that, Tom.

Victor Davis Hanson offered the only appropriate response to such malarkey: "Hanks' comments were sadly infantile pop philosophizing offered by, well, an ignoramus."