Speaking his own words, Tom Hanks shows his 'appalling ignorance'

Tweet "Tom Hanks has said that our war on Islamic terrorism has the same flaws as he perceives our Pacific War against Japan had seventy years ago.

• In both conflicts, some Americans employed crude racial stereotypes of our enemies,

• feared the strange gods they worshiped,

and sought to annihilate them. Hanks' comments reveal, for those of us who still needed evidence,

• the appalling ignorance of Hollywood and its performers."...