Dear Continually Angry Reader Steve Faddy<\/strong><\/p>\n Hey Vic,<\/em><\/p>\n I understand you are a historian, but please write a timely piece, maybe touching on the brilliant incoherence of the foreign policy of the Mad King Don. Obama is no longer the President. Write something relevant to the present populace instead of another pedantic vitriolic anti-Obama rant. That piece may even be apt. Seriously you can do better, I suspect you are relatively intelligent. I have even read your books. Thanks. Your friend, Steve<\/em><\/p>\n Hey Steve,<\/p>\n Sometimes unpredictability is far more effective in a leader than scripted impotence. Obama is no longer president, yes\u2014but his legacy of appeasement with Iran, North Korea, and Russia, as well as the messes in Syria, Libya, and Iraq remain. Even his supporters now say that they wish he had honored his redline in Syria, which might have deterred Assad from gassing additional children.<\/p>\n I follow the following formula: I do not mention Obama for four columns, and on the fifth may if his legacy is in the news. He is fading from the national conscious, but we still are stuck with a doubling of the debt, the ACA, and a world at the brink.<\/p>\n Thanks. Your friend, Victor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From an Angry Reader: Dear Continually Angry Reader Steve Faddy Hey Vic, I understand you are a historian, but please write a timely piece, maybe touching on the brilliant incoherence of the foreign policy of the Mad King Don. Obama is no longer the President. 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However, I don't agree that a year from now the \"American public will have a vague idea that about a year earlier something happened sometime to someone in Syria, but what and when and where and why they are\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Syria"","block_context":{"text":"Syria","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/the-world\/the-middle-east\/syria\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10151,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/angry-reader-12\/","url_meta":{"origin":10126,"position":1},"title":"Angry Reader","author":"victorhanson","date":"May 5, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"From an Angry Reader: Mr. Hanson, I don\u2019t know anything about Stanley Baldwin, but I\u2019ll assume your description of him is accurate. In that case, you have to stretch quite a bit to make Obama into Baldwin. For instance: You call Baldwin a pacifist. Obama is decidedly not a pacifist.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Angry Reader"","block_context":{"text":"Angry Reader","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/angry-reader\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":388,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-return-of-the-angry-reader\/","url_meta":{"origin":10126,"position":2},"title":"The Return of the Angry Reader","author":"victorhanson","date":"October 22, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers In response to a column on Libya one reader wrote: But Hanson's argument here is much bigger than the embassy killings. Except, I'm not entirely clear what the thesis is. Is he saying it was a mistake to go into Libya? Is he saying\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Angry Reader"","block_context":{"text":"Angry Reader","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/angry-reader\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9884,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/9884-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":10126,"position":3},"title":"02\/21\/17 From an Angry Reader:\u2026","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 21, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"02\/21\/17 From an Angry Reader: Victor David Hanson\u2019s latest rant, \u201cObama\u00a0left the president with monstrous mess (2\/17),\u201d is in its unmitigated slam at our\u00a0\u201clast president\u201d\u00a0not the least bit surprising, both in its orientation as well as in its patent bias.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0While it\u2019s a fool\u2019s errand to try to defend much of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Angry Reader"","block_context":{"text":"Angry Reader","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/angry-reader\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10022,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/10022-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":10126,"position":4},"title":"03\/27\/17 From an Angry Reader:\u2026","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 27, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"03\/27\/17 From an Angry Reader: Victor, As a fine historian (but poor political scientist) you know quite well that Andrew Jackson was a national hero with a distinguished military career. The Donald is a former casino owner and reality TV show star. It is a long stretch to compare them.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Angry Reader"","block_context":{"text":"Angry Reader","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/angry-reader\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10079,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/10079-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":10126,"position":5},"title":"04\/10\/17 From an Angry Reader:\u2026","author":"victorhanson","date":"April 10, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"04\/10\/17 From an Angry Reader: Mr. Hanson \u2013 In your truly myopic article about the Russian\/Trump connections you point out the Democrats\u2019 contacts with Russians but you fail to make an apples and apples comparison. You don\u2019t mention BUSINESS and MONEY. 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