[rmlew]

No, but Pat is willing to see us subsidize Hamas, and allow Muslims to tell us what cartoons we can publish.

He also might not be an antisemite, but he keeps going back to Holocaust Revisionism recently.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Pat isn't at all original. In the film, “The Best Years of Our Lives”, some Buchanan like character engages the sailor who lost his hands in conversation in a drug store, with the “Ya know, we were fighting the wrong people” line. Before he gets very far, another veteran decks him.

So even by 1946, the seeds doubt about the cause existed and an object lesson in suppressing them was available.

Buchanan takes advantage of widespread historical ignorance to make a few childish points about World War II. Yes, Pat, it was an ugly affair and more morally ambiguous than we might like, but the destruction of Nazism and Japanese militarism were not negligible accomplishments. That we could not immediately defeat Communism was sad, but does not negate the other accomplishments.