Here pro-war classicist Victor Davis Hanson calls on Bush to “bare his fangs and like some cornered carnivore start slashing back.” Hanson also tells Bush “to cross the Rubicon.” It was that act of political and religious betrayal — when Caesar marched his army across the Rubicon and into Italy — that marked the end of the Roman republic, and the beginning of the permanent dictatorship. NB: Hanson is far from the only warmonger at the Hoover Institution. Yet Herbert Hoover, an advocate of peace as president and all of his life, wanted his Institution to study and seek to … Continue reading You Can’t Parody a Neocon