Tune in to Savage. He took the book to task Thursday/Friday.
Sure it was unnecessary...
after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and the Germans declared war, we could have surrendered.
Give me a break.
Hilter?
Is that the gentle dictator in Pat Buchanan’s alternate universe, the one who would have been so easily appeased by simply swallowing up more territory from Czechoslovakia to Poland? Is that the dictator who did not really plan to carry out the entire “Mein Kampf” plan but was forced into it by dastardly western leaders who blundered into war by daring to draw a line and finally take a stand against Nazi Germany?
I have yet to see that PB has anything intelligent to say on these subjects, so please get back to us on why you think this book is worth reading and discussing. Life is too short to waste my time on Hitler/Fascism/Islam apologists and appeasers like Pat Buchanan.
One of the key lies in the book is the denial that the Nazis intended to kill the Jews — and only opted for the “final solution” when they couldn’t “merely” kick the Jews out of their country, take all their property, and businesses.
Candidly, it’s shocking at its revisionist nature, dependant on half-truths and a populace that had a publik skool education.
And people wonder why Jewish people don’t vote for Republicans. Buchanon — the MSM’s favorite conservative -— is Exhibit A.
Pat either doesn’t understand evil, or is evil himself and clothes his hatred with elaborate reasoning.
Pat never met a Nazi he didn’t like.
I was given it and started reading, I ended up skimming it after being disgusted with the first few pages. Buchanan’s lack of historical knowledge is not even funny any more.
All wars are unnecessary if you just give in to all the enemies demands.
All you need to know about Buchanan is that he’s MSNBC’s idea of a “Republican”.
Buchanan hasn’t made sense to me for about a decade but I used to give him the benefit of doubt.
No, seriously, just imagine, we could all be living in a 1,000 year Third Reich paradise. Kinda kewl, doncha think?
PB is an idiot. And if you are acutaully Pro Life First like your screen name says, you would agree the war was necessary to save the Jews because they were being butchered by the tens of thousands, men, women and children. Old and young alike. Or are you only Pro Life First for any one that is not a Jew? I look forward to your answer.
Try your local Bund meeting.
Pat gesprungen der Hai!
Churchill is one of my heroes. PB is not.
Is there anyone out there who has read the book?
I was looking for someone who could give Buchanan a counter-argument that addresses the specifics of one or more of his points.
Makes you wonder how much of this “history” came out of drunken conversations at the Oval Office with Tricky!
PB can be one of the clearest thinkers around, then he periodically goes off the deep end with stuff like this. The guy seems to have a fatal regard for nationalistic dictators and fascist ideology, and he flirts with antisemitism.
Stopped reading his columns long ago, wouldn’t even attempt his book, facts mean little to him.
Yea Pat, we should have left Hitler alone until he got nukes. Then it would have been too late.