Conservative Commentator Says Progress Being Made in Iraq

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(KCPW News) The United States may not be winning hearts and minds in the Arab world, but a conservative political commentator scheduled to speak at the University of Utah Wednesday says the U.S. has helped spread democracy in the region.

Historian Victor Davis Hanson points to Libya giving up its weapons of mass destruction and the establishment of a constitutional government in Afghanistan as signs of progress.

At the same time, Hanson decries the United States for mortgaging its future to the petroleum-rich Middle East. He says leaders will need to reach across the aisle to solve the energy problem that has troubled the Clinton and Bush administrations.

Hanson will talk politics and history Wednesday at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. His new book is about the rise and fall of farming in ancient Greece.

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