Why would anyone complain about that?
Why, indeed - refer to this, for as long as you can stomach it :(
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3234787/posts
That was a bad day. Surprisingly I refused the bait and didn’t pile on, but I wanted to.
FWIW, I met VDH once, back in 2006, when he, I, and four other historians were invited to the Oval Office to spend an hour and a half with Pres. Bush. He is a brilliant guy, and knows it.
We then had him to our campus to speak. He did some things that I thought were not very classy. For ex., he never once inquired about the school (which was paying him a hefty fee), who our students were, what our religious tradition was, and so on. He came, did his speech (excellent), and left. Nevertheless, I still assign his book "Carnage and Culture," because he is one of the few who really "gets" why the US (and in general, the west) kicks butt in warfare.