[Billthedrill]

It isn't really much of a mystery what Hitler was up to as anyone who has ever slogged through Mein Kampf readily understands. He really did believe in Aryan supremacy and right to rule, and he really did believe that lebensraum was to be had by right of conquest. And he really did act on these beliefs.

As to whether a Thousand-Year Reich would have been easier to live with than communism turned out to be, I have no particular desire to judge - it's sort of like deciding whether you want to put up with AIDS or the Black Plague. "Neither" is a perfectly acceptable answer, and "neither" is what we ended up with, no thanks at all to the isolationists such as Buchanan who would have had us put up with both.

[SJackson]

It isn't really much of a mystery what Hitler was up to as anyone who has ever slogged through Mein Kampf readily understands. He really did believe in Aryan supremacy and right to rule, and he really did believe that lebensraum was to be had by right of conquest.

Pat's exposition in the second half of the article rests on the assumption that Hitler's ambitions would have been sated by the destruction of Poland and a successful defeat of Stalin, leaving Western Europe untouched. Naive, imo.