Posted on 01/06/2002 3:23:03 PM PST by IM2Phat4U
An interesting review from Amazon.com gives new insight into Pat's new book.:
From Booklist
Maverick presidential candidate Buchanan decries the end of Western civilization portended by declining birth rates, out-of-control immigration, and loss of Christian and Jewish faith in Europe and non-Hispanic North America.
Indeed, the UN estimates on which he bases his first contention, which project large declines in the indigenous populations of Germany, Britain, Italy, Russia, and westernized Japan, in particular, are alarming in terms of the social services required by burgeoning numbers of elderly. Unless trends change, immigration must fuel growth in workforces and, hence, tax bases.
That's happening, so what's the problem? Well, those immigrants come from very different cultures at a time when Western elites discourage Western enculturation.
Buchanan traces those elites' attitudes to "Four Who Made a Revolution," the Marxist theorists Lukacs, Gramsci, Adorno, and Marcuse, who directed a "long march through the institutions" (Gramsci's phrase) of the arts, education, the media, and even the churches.
The Left's power has grown steadily since the 1930s, and now there is a leftist capitalism to go with leftist politics, hence the European Union and the many global free-trade schemes. At this point, Buchanan turns to the U.S and updates his familiar positions on schooling, the quarantining of religion, and the intimidation of opponents of the Left.
In the end, he counsels specific tactics for another Gramscian long march, this time animated by the soul of the West. This is a cry from the heart that hopes not to become a cry from the grave.
B. A war with Russia would have (and actually did) exhaust Germany to the point where it did not have any offensive capabilities.
C. Germany had no blue watter navy, and after a long campaign against Russia would have no money left to build one.
But as I said before, Germany could not defeat Britain when Hitler was at the zenith of his power and the British were all alone, at their nadir of power. True enough, lend-lease indeed helped the Brits win the Battle of Britain, and lend-lease is a policy that Pat praises in his book. It was one of the few things FDR did right. It was also explicitly supported by the vast majority of Americans. Pat explicitly states that the US could not afford to have Germany invade and take over Britain, for the very reason you mentioned.
After the battle of Britain, which took place nearly 2 years before the US entered the war, Germany was no threat to the British Isles.
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