THE IRANIAN CRISIS:
The End of Days*

By Victor Davis Hanson

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may seem absurd, but his apocalyptic worldview is deadly serious. We ignore his "war of destiny" at our peril. By Victor Davis Hanson.

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Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is a classicist and an expert on the history of war. A regular contributor to National Review Online and many other national and international publications, he has written or edited sixteen books, including theNew York Times bestseller Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power. His most recent book is A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War. He was awarded a National Humanities Medal by President Bush in 2007.