I was debating with myself whether or not to post a link to the newest Victor Davis Hansen editorial, Classicist Historian from Stanford.  I think the answer has to be no, because I have already posted links to earlier editorials from Victor Davis Hansen, and if you have read one Victor Davis Hansen editorial, you have read them all.

I understand this guy.  It is not that he has any number of opinions — surely he does because we all do — it is just that he has one opinion that is so strong that it overrides all the others.  It’s a little different from Thomas Friedman, who has two strong opinions he needs to impart the world — one about the democratizing power of free trade and the other about how the next six months are going to determine whether or not we succeed in Iraq.  Victor Hansen has consolidated it all to one — which boils down to the idea that history shows that all the wars that the United States has engaged in have had critics.  The funny thing about his opinion is that the examples he cites do not necessarily correlate to the premise he wants to impart on us about the current war — ride the critics out and the US will emerge victorious — unless you want to believe that it would have benefitted the US in Korea to go ahead and confront China.

The thing is, I have already said as much, for I really have a limited array of responses to the one opinion of Victor Davis Hansen.  I don’t know if that is a good thing on my part, but it is what it is.

I wonder if Victor Davis Hansen will ever give us another strongly held opinion he may have.  And I wonder if the answer is no if he could just let his newspaper syndicate reprint his last editorial and save himself the hassle.

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