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Pat needs to spend more time on the Islamists, and quit trying to rewrite history ...
Buchanon is the Nazi the left always said he was. What a stinkin’ creep.
You know he lost an uncle at Auschwitz.
Pat Buchanan does well these days because anti-Semitism is back in fashion, particularly on the left. American Jews fight anti-Semitism on the right a lot harder than they do on the left. They are largely left friendly and that will work, right up to the time they start loading the cattle cars again.
Citing the historical fact on the atrocities on a mass scale is sufficient in dissembling Buchanan’s thesis. His proposal that the war itself gave an air of permission for the slaughter is a theory that will never measure up to the reality of the actions taken by the Nazis prior to the timeline he’s suggesting.
Branding him for bad historical recounting is fine but making a suggestion that he is somehow formenting bigotry is another. It doesn’t seem necessary to disagree with the premise of his book.
He was correct on the emotionalism surrounding the hunt for anyone who had been affiliated with the Nazis in the US Justice Department. The Demjanjuk case comes to mine where people in the 80s could point at someone and condemn them for being somewhere they had never been.
Just a declaration of their having murderous eyes was enough.
But Buchanan may have been correct on the zealousness of those cases. But his book doesn’t hold up on its prima facie case.
The butchery by the Nazis when they invaded the Soviet Union and their designation of Jews, Slavs, Negroes, etc. as inferior is more than enough of a warning in retrospect to see what they had in mind.
There was a good movie taking the documentation of the Final Solution action that rendered the officers involved but the title escapes me.
If the date of Babi Yar preceded Pat’s timeline, his book is a failure of simple fact checking and destroys its very premise.
I read Pat’s book and then read the tone of this post and the contributers to this thread and just based on that I’d say the chances of Pat being much more right are very high.
The anti-Paters sound hysterical.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I still enjoy listening to Buchanan in an interview. The thing of it is is the older Buchanan gets the starker his ravings become.
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Pat was......
All that’s left are his fashionable black shoes