[Hardastarboard]

Almost monthly I am smeared by the far far right for defending the Anglo-American effort in World War II or support for the melting-pot tradition of racial integration and intermarriage.

As smart as I find VDH to be, this statement is a bit jolting. Who is he REALLY talking about here? Pat Buchanan? Who in their right (or left) mind thinks there was anything wrong with the Anglo-American effort in WWII? There were some aspects of its execution that could have been done better, but overall it went about as well as could be expected, and was vitally important to beat Nazi Germany.

Anyone who disputes that really is on the fringes, and I'm not sure there's an easy label to put on them.

[Tolik]

Fringes indeed. The problem with them is that they are more vocal and everybody can send e-mails.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Almost monthly I am smeared by the far far right for defending the Anglo-American effort in World War II or support for the melting-pot tradition of racial integration and intermarriage.

As smart as I find VDH to be, this statement is a bit jolting. Who is he REALLY talking about here? Pat Buchanan?

Pat Buchanan is the only one I know of who writes from that position.

Who in their right (or left) mind thinks there was anything wrong with the Anglo-American effort in WWII? There were some aspects of its execution that could have been done better, but overall it went about as well as could be expected, and was vitally important to beat Nazi Germany.

[La Lydia]

On the fringe, indeed. But there is a lot of talk in academia, where VDH resides, that we were wrong to fight World War II the way we did, by partnering with Stalin, because we supposedly fought that war to liberate Poland and eastern Europe from the Nazi, and then turned them over to the Soviets; the Germans only wanted what was taken from them at the end of WW I; the British and France wanted to maintain their stranglehold of hegemony over Europe, and a rise of German power was a threat to that hegemony, but we had no dog in the fight...etc. For some people, the United States has never done anything right, and there is an amazing amount of loony revisionism going around that most people never see, most of which ignores the Holocaust (surprise!) but I am sure VDH is exposed to regularly. I don’t even want to think about the melting-pot stuff. It makes my head hurt.

[r9etb]

As smart as I find VDH to be, this statement is a bit jolting. Who is he REALLY talking about here? Pat Buchanan? Who in their right (or left) mind thinks there was anything wrong with the Anglo-American effort in WWII? There were some aspects of its execution that could have been done better, but overall it went about as well as could be expected, and was vitally important to beat Nazi Germany.

I can believe VDH's assertion that he gets that sort of mail from whackadoodles.

And for that matter, there are folks right here at FR who have argued that very thing.