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Britain declared war on Sept. 3, 1939, to preserve Poland. For six years, Poland was occupied by Nazi and Soviet armies and SS and NKVD killers. At war's end, the Polish dead were estimated at 6 million. A third of Poland had been torn away by Stalin, and Nazis had used the country for the infamous camps of Treblinka and Auschwitz. Fifteen thousand Polish officers had been massacred at places like Katyn. The Home Army that rose in Warsaw at the urging of the Red Army in 1944 had been annihilated, as the Red Army watched from the other side of the Vistula. When the British celebrated V-E day in May 1945, Poland began 44 years of tyranny under the satraps of Stalin, Khrushchev and Brezhnev. Was World War II "a good war" for the Poles?

Pat is such a nitwit. The terminology "Good War" is a leftist formulation which by implication views Korea and Vietnam (to say nothing of Iraq) as "bad" wars. In a broad sense, no war is "good"--the serious term should be "necessary," some more than others.

And the above bit about Poland is mealy-mouthing at its finest. Most of the Polish population losses were not in the "war"--they were genocidal killings committed by bureaucrats far from the battlefield. These types of killings were why the war was necessary.

and Nazis had used the country for the infamous camps of Treblinka and Auschwitz.

On the positive side, this is as close as Pat's come to repudiating his occasional flirtation with Holocaust denial.

On the positive side, this is as close as Pat's come to repudiating his occasional flirtation with Holocaust denial.

You're too kind. :) It's just a different kind of holocaust denial. Pat's got two functioning brain cells and they're both antisemitic.

And about those camps - sounds like Pat is suggesting that Poland should have just shut up and taken the occupation, and Britain shouldn't have honored their treaty (is he related to Chamberlain, or just an avid student?), and if they had, the horror of Treblinka and Auschwitz wouldn't have happened. What is he smoking? Hitler opened up 4 concentration camps - IN GERMANY - six years before he ever invaded Poland. The camps in Poland just made the other ones a little less crowded.

Pat Buchanan is the right's Jimmy Carter.