I agree Buchanan isn't a Nazi. But he seems to enjoy tweaking people by making them wonder if he's one:
"Cui Bono? For whose benefit these endless wars in a region that holds nothing vital to America save oil, which the Arabs must sell us to survive? Who would benefit from a war of civilizations between the West and Islam? Answer: one nation, one leader, one party. Israel, Sharon, Likud."
I think David Frum is absolutely correct that
"The echo in that previous paragraph of the Nazi slogan "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer" is unlikely to have been unintentional."
Why Buchanan is so anti-Israel, I don't know. Defending a guy accused of being a vicious Concentration Camp guards might just be a desire to see an inncoent guy not be railroaded. But when he makes comments like the above, isn't it his fault that people think the worst?I mean, he's deliberately trying to provoke a reaction with comment like that, right?
Anyway, I think Rdb3 is right, Hayek's critique of European "conservatism" is in favor of what we call today American conservatism is great: http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/hayek1.html
One might entertain that theory if one could find other examples of expressed concern on his part about a possibly innocent convict.
However, there just aren't any.
I believe that to be the case.