Well, one of the points he is making - that communism was worse than nazism - is a valid point.
Blasphemy!!! HERESY!!!! You're not allowed to SAY that!!!! EVERYBODY knows that right-wing Naziism is, was, and always will be the ULTIMATE EVIL!!! The MSM, Public Schools, politicians, and literati all tell me so ... and they would never lie about anything.
Actually he makes several valid points, even if you disagree with his conclusion. However, everyone on this board sees fit to regress to DU'ers and just call him an idiot rather than rebut his argument.
I do think that he is correct that communism was worse than Nazism. And I agree that the Eastern European fall to communism was a major defeat. The question is, could we have won the war against the Germans without allying with the Russians? If yes, FDR and Churchill were right to enter the war, but made a serious tactical error. If no, the question of whether we should have entered the war hinged on whether the Germans would have invaded Western Europe had we not entered. Buchanan thinks no, I think the obvious answer is yes.
Worse for who?
Anyway you're wrong, nazism (national SOCIALISM) was just as bad as communism.
Hmmmm, mass murder by reason of economic class is worse than mass murder on the basis of race and religion. Sorry, except for numbers killed (the communists have had a much longer time frame and much larger expanse of territory in which to do their work) I don't see a great difference between those two sides of the socialist coin.
Interesting... The "lesser of two evils" theory. That very mindset or "point" is what allowed Hitler to rise to power. He was able to convince the German citizens that this was the case and he was also able to convince Wall Street of the same thing. Whether German communism would have produced more carnage in Europe then Nazism is debatable.
And most Americans aren't even aware that Wall Street took a large role in the financial backing of Hitlers rise to power. We will never know if WW II could have been prevented if such US financial support did not exist for Hitlers embryonic NAZI party. US foreign policy, and the willingness of US power elites to financially back foreign entities while ignoring the political views and actions of those governments (lesser of two evils scenario) continues to haunt this country to this very day. Most recently Iraq (Saddam), Afghanistan (Bin Laden), North Korea (via Clinton's Sunshine Policy) and the biggest mistake of all IMHO... China.
I fear we will someday pay a huge price for ignoring what China says and does politically... just to keep the shelves at Wally World stocked with cheap goods.
WW III???? Time will tell...