Despite being a celebrated actor and respected director, Tom Hanks is not very bright. During recent appearances to promote his HBO miniseries The Pacific, Hanks presented some revisionist history by insisting that American involvement in WWII was just a result of racism against the Japanese. He also insinuates that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are merely products of US racism, as well. He has thus far refused to acknowledge his errors and has even gone so far as to defend his astonishing ignorance.