Here is the world we live in: a Jeffersonian historian is considered out of bounds, but Max Boot is a respectable conservative. A correspondent recently wrote to tell me: “In a recent article in the LA Times, Max Boot favorably reviews an article by Robert Burell, a history instructor at the Naval Academy, in which Burell argues persuasively that the Battle of Iwo Jima was unnecessary and, in any case, waged on the basis of faulty intelligence and inadequate planning. The battle resulted in 6,000 American dead and 20,000 wounded. “Rather than deploring the useless loss of American lives and … Continue reading This Is What They Consider Respectable Opinion