[Luke21]

Pat is really on this World War Two thing defending the “peace loving” Germans. Why doesn't he mention Mein Kampf? Hitler was repulsively open about his territorial and racial ambitions.

With Pat, everything happens in a vacuum. He starts with the Sudeten agreement and then blames Poland for the war. Germany had been rattling sabers for years. Churchill and Duff Cooper warned against the Nazis constantly during the thirties. Germany first reoccupied the Rhineland and then armed Franco in the Spanish Civil War. They twice meddled in Austria and finally invaded there, after a so called election.

Between the Sudeten crisis and the invasion of Poland, Hitler took the rest of Czechoslovakia. He violated the agreement with Chamberlain. He violated them constantly. The only thing that could have possibly been done to stop Hitler was going to war earlier in the decade, and the British and French publics wouldn't have gone along with that at all.

Hitler wanted living space taken from sub-humans. That was his grand design. He murdered between 6-10 million people. But Pat makes him sound like a misunderstood diplomat. Pat is in essence, apologizing for Nazi Germany.

I've foolishly defended Pat here for way too long. This is revisionist history at its worst. He has lost it.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Why doesn't he mention Mein Kampf? Hitler was repulsively open about his territorial and racial ambitions.

The world's great tyrants and mass murderers have always been remarkably open about their goals and how they intend to achieve them - Hitler, Lenin, Mao, Osama bin Laden. Their defenders in the West have always sought frantically to pretend that the spoken and written proclamations of these fanatics don't matter - that if only the West had done a better job of appeasing them, things would have been different.

In this, Buchanan is no different from the leftists who claim that 9/11 is our fault because we didn't allow Israel to be destroyed long ago.