Posted on 03/25/2008 5:25:01 AM PDT by BGHater
Start with the US Chamber of Commerce...
But how did staying out of Abyssinia and Spain hurt America?
Fascism harms all free peoples. Some to greater degrees than others.
Also, Spain served as a practice run for Hitler’s blitzkrieg tactics. Many nazi weapons and tactics were perfected then.
It strikes me as ironic that Patty would babble idiocy about not learning from history is childlike. HE seems to be dumber than a 5th grader on his best days.
Poor Pat: an idiot as usual.
My favorite is the 'POPULIST!!' or 'PROTECTIONIST!!' monikers.
We need people like Buchanan and Dobbs to keep us from being lemmings - also they force us to give topics like this one some serious consideration and thoughtful responses.
Remember, Franco didn't start the Spanish Civil War ~ the Left did that. The Left also targeted Franco for assassination long before the beginning of the war.
Think of them as being rather like the crowd in Congress who want to impose the "fairness doctrine" on Republicans and Conservatives, but at the point of a gun.
Among all the bad choices available at the time, leaving Franco alone to do his thing was the best.
German military involvement in the war was limited and hardly indicative of what was to come. There were, for example, no crematories, and the Germans didn't use jet planes and rockets. All of that lie in the future.
Buchanan is entirely correct in this area. From 1880 to 1920, the United States experienced huge waves of immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe, and the Middle East (mostly Christians and Jews from Lebanon, Syria, Armenia, etc.). Had liberal immigration been allowed, the children and grandchildren of these immigrants would not have been Americanized. Immigrants arriving after 1924 would have renewed ties to the homelands of earlier immigrants and counteracted the assimilation process. Due to the 40 year moratorium, descendants of Italians, Poles, Jews, Ukrainians, Greeks, etc., became as American as those of British colonial descent or 19th Century German, Irish, Dutch, and Scandinavian origin. The assimilation and Americanization of Hispanics and others who came after 1965 will only take place when and if the borders are closed and immigration severely limited.
He wrote a book back in the '60s about the Depression and he pretty much debunked the 'Smoot-Hawley was the cause of the depression' accepted wisdom.
He agrees that Smoot-Hawley was bad law but in and of itself it did not cause or prolong the Depression. It was bad monetary policy - reducing the quantity of money available to businesses (by about 1/3 I think) was what caused the massive unemployment - in other words, gov't mismanagement of the money supply.
I can't remember the name of the book, but it is well worth reading.
Smoot-Hawley contributed to a deepening of the Great Depression.
Not according to Milton Friedman.
He was a monetarist. Of course he blames monetary policy.
pat buchanan is a moron
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I'll have to agree with Pat on that one.
“Nativist” is a term I would expect to hear from a Liberal as an insult.
I believe in free, but fair, trade. I blame the Unions for killing American manufacturing as much as anyone.
I also believe in the LAW and our SOVEREIGNTY. I am amazed how much Bush has bought into “climate change,” illegal immigration and big government.
If polled today, I would not approve of President Bush's job performance. Of course, the MSM says its all about Bush's conservative policies. They never mention conservatives being unhappy.
If conservatives were happy with Bush, he'd be over 50%.
Mr. President, if “Nativist” means respecting our borders and respecting the path to citizenship, I will gladly accept your insult.
[Two-thirds of the nation says we are on the wrong course. Two-thirds rejects NAFTA and amnesty. Two-thirds wants out of Iraq. Two-thirds rejects Bush. Bush says that people are being misled by those wicked old isolationists, protectionists and nativists. At least he and Poppy will have something to agree on in retirement.]
He has not helped conservatism and has been wrong more than right and Mccain will continue the same destruction as would any of the 3 Presidential front runners would when one of them gets elected.
We’re all monetarists now.
Pat is a fine speechwriter. Lou Dobbs is an attention whore who is just bitter that he lost most of his money in tech stocks.
Lou Dobbs is just worthless.
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