{"id":10736,"date":"2017-11-15T13:36:11","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T21:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=10736"},"modified":"2017-11-15T13:36:11","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T21:36:11","slug":"10736-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/10736-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>11\/15\/2017<\/h3>\n<h3>From an Angry Reader:<\/h3>\n<p><em>Read your article in the NR.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Bad research, poorly written, some facts and a lot of your very biased opinions.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In short it is mostly drivel.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I hope your other work has good foundation and is better researched.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>You should take the trouble to visit the so called \u201crogue states\u201d so that you can opine with a balanced and, more importantly, informed view.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Best Wishes<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Farhan.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Victor Davis Hanson&#8217;s Reply:<\/h3>\n<p>Dear Angry Reader Farhan,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is not wise to allege bias and \u201cbad research\u201d and then not cite a single example of error to support your wild claims. Otherwise the impression is that you are emotionally invested rather than empirically guided. I have visited many of the rogue states of the world and my opinion of them was not changed by visits there\u2014except in most cases to have become even more pessimistic. There is a reason why many from Iran and Pakistan seek entry into the U.S.; but rarely do U.S.-born citizens seek to become citizens of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan or the Islamic Republic of Iran. The nuclear technology of both countries is derivative of Western science and technology; both have violated international accords on non-proliferation; and both while called republics are not true consensual societies, given their theocratic natures.<\/p>\n<p>Best Wishes<\/p>\n<p>Victor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11\/15\/2017 From an Angry Reader: Read your article in the NR. Bad research, poorly written, some facts and a lot of your very biased opinions. In short it is mostly drivel. I hope your other work has good foundation and is better researched. You should take the trouble to visit the so called \u201crogue states\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2Na","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11303,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/07-30-18-angry-reader\/","url_meta":{"origin":10736,"position":0},"title":"07-30-18 Angry Reader","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 30, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"From An Angry Reader: Subject: NATO Maybe it\u2019s my old age but you seem to be contradicting yourself. You explain quite correctly how useless it is and then suggest that you think strengthen it is a good idea??? Looks like trump wants to dump it knowing Germany will never pony\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":188,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/angry-reader-4\/","url_meta":{"origin":10736,"position":1},"title":"Angry Reader #4","author":"victorhanson","date":"December 2, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers Angry Reader #4 wrote: You know, I remember, before Pajamas media, when I respected some of the writers that are now here (such as VDH) \u2014 but they\u2019ve all turned into crazy cranks. This little virtual world they\u2019ve built themselves is bad for their\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Angry Reader&quot;","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":10571,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/10571-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":10736,"position":2},"title":"09\/13\/17 From An Angry Reader:\u2026","author":"victorhanson","date":"September 13, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"09\/13\/17 From An Angry Reader: Angry Reader Rich Laughlin \u00a0 Mr. Hanson, please try using sentences with less words. Most recently, I read one of your articles that had a sentence with 44 words. Other sentences in the same article were almost as bad. Really. You are loosing me with\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Angry Reader&quot;","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":368,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/angry-reader-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":10736,"position":3},"title":"Angry Reader #2","author":"victorhanson","date":"November 5, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers Angry Reader #2\u00a0writes: Typical crank piece by the professor, full of crap that people who don\u2019t know California (but loathe it anyway) will eat up. Fact: \u201cLiberals\u201d did not let illegal aliens flood California. The federal government did, by not policing the border. Rich\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Angry Reader&quot;","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":10197,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/angry-reader-13\/","url_meta":{"origin":10736,"position":4},"title":"Angry Reader","author":"victorhanson","date":"May 24, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"From an Angry Reader: Mr. Hanson, Normally, I would find a credentialed resume such as yours quite impressive and interesting, however, the deluded and incredulous nonsense I witnessed you spouting on FOX News with Tucker Carlson, that Russian involvement with the Trump campaign exists only as a 'trumped up' Dem\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Angry Reader&quot;","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":11298,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/07-27-18-angry-reader\/","url_meta":{"origin":10736,"position":5},"title":"07-27-18 Angry Reader","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 27, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"From An Angry Reader: Your article\u2026about NATOs challenge is Germany, not America. Sir, With all respect but before you write any article you should learn about history. Germany did not start both World Wars. You might want to do some research before writing anything. Very sad how little people here\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10737,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10736\/revisions\/10737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}