I wonder, too, how Buchanan can write good columns sometimes, and awful ones at other times. The only hint I can find is that he also writes for “The Wanderer” a German Catholic newspaper out of Minnesota. They are the same way. On some Church matters they are brilliant and at other times they are not, like the current essay about why the Vatican wants us to get rid of Capitalism! I don’t read Buchanan’s column in the Wanderer because everyone else who writes for the paper is an “America Firster”. If anyone can figure it out, let me know.
Where he is 'right' on domestic issues, it is often for the wrong reasons. If you go through his history of articles, you'll see that his many of his domestic stances are grounded in a belief that America is not a force for good, but of evil and his domestic approach is to protect us from ourselves and/or some sort of Israel control (he blames Israel for a lot of our problems). He has often written (eg Day of Reckoning & The Great Betrayal) about the line of the masses and the PTBs as if there were some secret controllers (ie, NWO). Stuff like this isn't new for Pat. He defended Iwan Demjanjuk and other former Nazis against prosecution for war crimes.
This was carried on Lugnut Rockwell earlier today.
Buchanan is totally distorting the history here. By the time of the Danzig negotiations, Hitler's modus operandi was well known in Europe: he would ide tify a German minority in a neighboring country, then claim the land it happened to be on as German territory. After country after country gave up slices of territory to Germany, Poland decided to stand its ground when Hitler claimed the Polish coastline between mainland Germany and he state of Prussia. Britain backed up Poland with a mutual defense pact, and the war began. Everyone know that of Poland had given in, Hitler would repeat the tactic somewhere else. It would be only a matter of time until he would claim Missouri under this doctrine.