[SoothsayerToo]

Color me confused on some of the attacks on Pat Buchanan. The questions he raises are legitimate though I very much disagree with his premise that the US should have stayed out of WWII.
The question I have, is some genocide more worthy of condemnation than other genocide. Academia answers this with a resounding yes. By doing so it lets them off the hook for what happened under the purges of Stalin and Mao. I think hunting down former Nazis is a good thing. It is a shame that we cannot do this for former communists. In fact in our town we are "United against Hate" but only certain types. I am dismayed to see signs of political correctness on the FR, perhaps they are trolls????

[WoofDog123]

" I am dismayed to see signs of political correctness on the FR, perhaps they are trolls????"

No, just a microcosm of the american public on the conservative side.

[Rob_DSM]

I don't think there are any trolls here, just people who want answers. The typical pro-American view of the war, as though we have never made any mistakes in our history, is the PC way of looking at the issue in my opinion. Certainly what we and the Allies did was worth it, but there are questions that are worth asking. I might not agree with Buchanan on everything, or even most things, but at least he has the guts to say things that are quite politically incorrect. The title is a bit misleading, as the war was certainly worth it, but perhaps it didn't accomplish as much as we generally tend to think it did.

I don't think it is un-American to look back at something decades later after the smoke has cleared. We did what we thought was best at the time, and we stopped the Nazis. The question is only, could we have done it better?

[iconoclast]

I think hunting down former Nazis is a good thing. It is a shame that we cannot do this for former communists.

I disagree with you about eternal hunts for (all) past political sinners.

But I cannot argue the fact that it has been a one-sided phenomenon to this point. Any speculations as to why?

[rcocean]

Simply post the name "Pat Buchanan" on FR and they come out the woodwork - throwing out childish insults and acting as if Pat was the enemy instead of the liberals. If Pat wrote a column suggesting we make Israel the 51st state - they would still call him a Nazi and Anti-semite.

I get the impression they are either "trolls" - or so consumed by irrational hatred of a TV commentator that they prefer Ted Kennedy or Hillary.