That one war guarantee FORCED Hitler to go on a rampage? Really? I'm not sure I agree they should have done it, but your idea that it outweighs everything is preposterous. How can a war guarantee be so terrible, but invading and bombing a countries that haven't martially attacked you is so innocent. In other posts you decry the U.S. military being deployed in recent circumstances. But you think Germany's invasion of Western Europe is nothing to be criticized. How come you and Mr. Buchanan give, "special privileges," to Nazi Germany that other countries don't get? What is the justification for this double standard?
“That one war guarantee FORCED Hitler to go on a rampage? Really?”
There wasn’t a rampage: instead, there was a war between Germany and Poland, one which could have been avoided, but which at worst was a regional war that could have stayed a regional war.
It was Britain that created the war between Germany and Poland and which transformed it into a world war.
“I’m not sure I agree they should have done it, but your idea that it outweighs everything is preposterous.”
No, what’s preposterous is your defense of a war and a maniac who destroyed the British Empire and who destroyed Poland and who destroyed Germany, and who arguably inflicted a mortal wound on our entire civilization.
And to think, it was all because a city that 95 percent German, which America acknowledged was German by refusing to ratify the Versailles Treaty. To think that it could have all been avoided if Poland had simply ceded that stupid city where only 5 percent of the population was Polish.
If a few incompetent warmongers in Britain had been thrown in prison, there wouldn’t have been a world war.
“How can a war guarantee be so terrible, but invading and bombing a countries that haven’t martially attacked you is so innocent.”
Germany never attacked Britain - it was Britain that declared war on Germany, and the decision was made because Neville Chamblerlain had given a war guarantee to Poland, a worthless war guarantee at that, which ensured the destruction of the country.
“In other posts you decry the U.S. military being deployed in recent circumstances.”
I think it is a laughable waste of our resources - deploying thousands of troops to Germany to protect Lithuania from Russia, while allowing Mexico to invade California and Arizona.
How does anyone rationalize that?
“But you think Germany’s invasion of Western Europe is nothing to be criticized.”
There never would have been an invasion of Western Europe if Britain and not declared war on Germany. In hindsight, we know that Germany had no plans to conquer Western Europe, much less Britain, still less America, an idea so preposterous that FDR should have been laughed out of office when he lied to the American people.
“How come you and Mr. Buchanan give, “special privileges,” to Nazi Germany that other countries don’t get?”
The best case scenario for Poland, Britain, America, France, the Netherlands, Denmark and Norway and all the other Western countries - that would have been staying out of the war like Ireland, Sweden, Switzerland and Spain somehow managed to do.
You are the one who thinks the most destructive war in the history of the world was a great idea. We think that it would have been wise to avoid the “Second World War” and the “Cold War” that followed it.
“What is the justification for this double standard?”
Why on earth should Britain have given a war guarantee to Poland ... a country where Britain had no real interests, where Britain couldn’t militarily come to the rescue even if it had wanted to, and which “guaranteed” (the only thing it managed to guarantee) the destruction of Poland?
Instead, why couldn’t Britain have simply tended to its own Empire? Why couldn’t France have tended to its own Empire? Why couldn’t America have stayed out of a stupid European thousands of miles from North America?
Why didn’t we just let Hitler and Stalin go to war?