[Argus]

No war is “good”. Some are necessary. WWII certainly was for the US, and the war we’re in now against the updated Islamist version of Nazis is too.

In fact, Buchanan puts the end date of WWII too soon. The issues that arose from the Hitler/Stalin pact to divide Europe were not fully resolved until 1989-91, with the fall of the Soviet empire that was the successor to the Third Reich. So in reality, what we call WWII lasted for fifty years.

Puts our present situation in somewhat more realistic perspective.

[goldstategop]

Excellent point. The Cold War was really a continuation of World War II and it ended only when the Soviet Bloc collapsed at the end of the 1980s. As Pat Buchanan knows full well, that didn't happen because the U.S ran away from confronting the Soviet Union. President Reagan engaged it with all of America's resources and helped anti-communist freedom fighters abroad. That's the exact opposite of isolationism. Its no more a sound policy today than it was at any earlier time in American history. When we have adversaries of the open society, we will come into conflict with them. Both our ideals and interests demand we do so and while it may be possible to put if off for awhile, sooner or later it will result in an inevitable clash of men and arms.

"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