Victor David Hanson sees things as I do. I am as appalled as he that people are busily polishing the turds we have been presented, and calling them shiny.
It's unbelievable, I suppose it's a coping mechanism.
Victor Davis Hanson is a Greek historian by training. He probably remembers reading the tweets Xerxes sent his mother right after Salamis about how they suffered some losses but it was going to make the conquest of Greece more of a sure thing.