He does precisely that, by blaming the horrors that followed on the Poles' failure to negotiate: "The cost of the war that came of a refusal to negotiate Danzig was millions of Polish dead, the Katyn massacre, Treblinka, Sobibor, Auschwitz, the annihilation of the Home Army in the Warsaw uprising of 1944, and 50 years of Nazi and Stalinist occupation, barbarism and terror."
It's a historically silly position that Hitler would have played nice, except for the Poles' intransigence, but that's what Pat is saying here.
Buchanan states:The cost of the war that came of a refusal to negotiate Danzig was millions of Polish dead
Now let us consider the parallel I starated to raise. In a rape prevention and response training class, suppose we take girls through an exercise where we EXPLAIN that the consequence in a specific case of a certain victim refusing to acceede to the demands of her assailant at knife point was that she was stabbed to death. Suppose before she expired in the hospital she had explained that she had relied upon statements from the Chief of police that she could always rely upon the police to protect her, but the police had not heeded her calls. Suppose we explain that the victim had an alternative, that she might have tried to negotiate and might be alive today.
Have we JUSTIFIED the rapist/murderer in the case we reviewed? Can these statements be used by a defense attorney to get his rapist muderer off? Instead, haven't we simply EXPLAINED to some young girls that relying on the promises of the police can be foolish, and that you might have an option of survival in negotiating with your assailant as opposed to near certainty of being murdered if you don't comply.
This is really not so hard if you try to understand the clear difference between justify and explain and put your mind to what Pat actually says in his own words and not your corrupt efforts to paraphrase and interpret and put your own meaning into his words.
Since Pat has written out a clear indictment of the Nazi's for not playing nice I don't see how you can interpret anything Pat says in this article as claiming that the Nazi's were or would have played nice.
Stop trying to put your own words in Pat's mouth. You can take him to task for something he actually said, but not for something you imagine him to have said.