Posted on 06/13/2008 10:06:48 AM PDT by forkinsocket
Patrick J. Buchanan's new contribution to the flourishing genre of World War II revisionism, should appear in the same season as Nicholson Baker's "Human Smoke." Never has there been such a clear demonstration of the way ideological extremes tend to converge.
Messrs. Baker and Buchanan probably could not stand to be in the same room for five minutes. The former is to the left of most Democrats, the latter to the right of most Republicans. When they look back to the 1930s, Mr. Baker's role models are the Quakers and pacifists who believed it was better to lie down for Hitler than take up arms to fight him; Mr. Buchanan's are the isolationists who believed that Nazi Germany was a necessary bulwark against the real menace, godless communism. But the net result of their lucubrations is the same. Both men have written books arguing that World War II, far from being "the good war" of myth, was an unnecessary folly that Britain and America should never have engaged in. And both have zeroed in on Winston Churchill as the war's true villain — an immoral, hypocritical, bloodthirsty braggart whose fame is a hoax on posterity.
But where Mr. Baker's book can be, and in most quarters has been, dismissed as the ignorant blundering of a novelist who wandered far out of his depth, Mr. Buchanan's book is more dangerous. For Mr. Buchanan, a former speechwriter in the Nixon and Reagan White Houses, was once a notable presence in mainstream American politics.
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Reminds me of LaRouche. All that education and he comes up sucking his thumb.
PB wrote an article a decade ago for Chronicles magazine about the Civil War which was full of errors (more than 50 in about eight pages). He’s not a serious historian.
Pat has turned into one of those Paleocons who blames jews for all of the US’s foreign policy problems.
PB had only the briefest period in the mainstream, when he was co-host of CNN's then top rated Crossfire. Success destroyed him, however.
All of history is writ to fit the times; when the times change, it is rewritten.
Reads more like a review of Buchanan rather than a review of the book.
What an embarrassment. There he goes again; we should have a GOP collection plate for his full and complete retirement - silence.
"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
In Buchanan’s book he’s confused Chamberlain for Churchill at least three times. And the premise of his book that Hitler was not out for conquest is pure bullshit. (Guess he never read Mein Kampf. My mother lived it!)
He’s been hanging out too long with Chrissy “oops I peed my pants” Matthews and Herr Olbermeister too long.
Progressive friends will warp your mind.
Olbermeister ??? Make thet UNTERmeister???LOL,,,
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