[rmlew]

Buchanan seems to forget the implications of the annexation of Moravia and Bohemia (the rump Czech state) by Germany. For Poland, it looked like a replay with Germany's calls for annexation of Danzig (with no thought given to the largely non-German Polish and Balt populations of Prussia). The Colonels running Poland ( a bunch of antisemites I will not defend), correctly say Hitler's call as a lie. And if you ever read Mein Kampf and Hitler's Second Book, you would know that Hitler intended to annex and depopulate Poland.

Buchanan is playing counter history and ignoring facts. He isn't just a Nazi apologist, but an ignorant one.

PS. And the time to stop Hitler would have been before the forced joining of Germany and Austria, when Italy would have joined England and France and Germany was still weak.

[Vineyard]

Buchanan has long ago ceased to be even interesting.

Buchanan tries to re-write the run-up to WWII, and he draws some silly conclusions. The war was going to be inevitable at some point. We could have acted early, and maybe it would have been over more quickly, with less loss of life.

Fast-forward to the Iraq situation - and early action was taken rather than risk Saddam developing WMDs and giving them to terrorists. He already had a reputation for developing and using WMDs - against Iran and his own people. Had President Bush not acted in 2003, perhaps we would have lost a city or two, and had a far more serious problem.

It sounds like Pat Buchanan would have preferred that Pres. Bush had done a “Chamberlain” and kicked the can down the road til it got worse! That’s not what he said, but that is the proper inference that can be drawn.