Victor Davis Hanson and John Derbyshire write for National Review Online and disagree about Iraq. Hanson advances the argument that a lack of democratic idealism for the Middle East on behalf of America "helped bring us to the crisis of 9/11." Derbyshire says that the "national fondness for high-flown rhetoric about liberty, rights, and the brotherhood of Man...has worked on us like a spell, enchanting us into folly" in Iraq. Derbyshire writes that there is nothing "wrong with changing your mind when new facts appear," while Hanson castigates those who "demanded that President Clinton or Bush remove Saddam Hussein, but now consider such a move an abject blunder of the first order." Hanson believes we are "close to victory abroad" as we are "closer to concession at home." Derbyshire "believes the democratization of Iraq to be a hopeless enterprise, and a waste of America's attention and resources." Same magazine, different perspective.

Having canceled my print subscription a few years ago, can someone tell me if Derb's unpopular Iraq opinions get printed in the dead tree edition with the same frequency as VDH?