Churchill, Hilter and the Unnecessary War (Looking for people who have read it)

Book entitled, "Churchill, Hilter and the Unnecessary War" | Spring 2008 | Patrick J. Buchanan

[ConservativeLA]

Odd how the neo-cons start to sound like Leftists when their buttons get pushed. So much heat, so little logic.

I just finished the book. I’m a bit stunned by its implications, which I will pass on discussing given the hysterical circus atmosphere here. You will find it provocative at the very least, and perhaps even informative.

Apparently the majority of people posting to this site need to engage in libelous, hyperventilating ad hominems when their sacred cows are found wanting. “I don’t need to read the book to know it’s neo-nazi garbage.” Alrightee then. Churchill was the savior of Western Civilization. Sure. Whatever. Carry on, then....

[prolifefirst]

I had read Buchanan’s book and found it powerful.

[prolifefirst]

Any way, thanks for your perspective. I think he will pass the book to me when he's done. I'm certainly open to the possibility that we were sold a bill of goods to get us into in WWII. Heck, it's long believed that FDR knew about the impending attack on Pearl Harbor. How much more wild are Buchanan's assertions?

The reason he started his research is that he has wondered for a long time why Western Civilization is careening toward oblivion.

What he found is that WWI and WWII can be seen as one war, a civil war among Western, Christian nations, and that this is at the heart of our cultural disease.

He says that something like 100 million people were killed during this Civil War, and half of Europe was enslaved for 50 years by the USSR. WWI and WWII could have been avoided if we wouldn't have done numerous things to egg on our enemies, and that Churchill, although a great leader once WWII began, was more responsible than anyone for starting this war.

He thinks that Bush, who has a Churchill bust in the Oval Office, and his war advisors are making many of the same mistakes as their hero.

Buchanan uses 500 pages to argue his theses from many diffent angles, and has 50 pages of endnotes. I found it powerful.

[ConservativeLA]

Powerful, yes. Food for thought and grounds for further research, at least.

The book should not be the occasion for hysteria, but reflection. Throwing insults at Buchanan like “revisionist” and “neo-Nazi” and “holocaust denier” are simply absurd; if anything, that kind of heat indicates to me that there is some substance that some weird version of Conservative-PC doesn’t want to deal with in the same sort of even-handed manner that a mere refutation based on the facts would accomplish. Whenever people get that emotional about politics...

...and I’m really going out on a limb here, making a joke that references Mission of Burma referencing Goring...

...that’s when I reach for my revolver.