Was the Holocaust Inevitable? ( Patrick J. Buchanan )

townhall.com ^ | June 20, 2008 | Patrick J. Buchanan

[kellynla]

Imagine the millions of lives that would have been saved had someone been able to put a bullet in Hiter & Stalin.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Pat rewrites history again. Britain didn’t lose her empire because of the world war.

[dirtboy]

The Holocaust was not a cause of the war, but a consequence of the war. No war, no Holocaust.

Tell me Pat didn't write that.

[dirtboy]

That Hitler was a rabid anti-Semite is undeniable. "Mein Kampf" is saturated in anti-Semitism. The Nuremberg Laws confirm it. But for the six years before Britain declared war, there was no Holocaust, and for two years after the war began, there was no Holocaust.

Gee, Krystalnacht was just Western propaganda, I guess.

[vladimir998]

Pat wrote that.

I think Pat has gone nuts.

[Past Your Eyes]

Thanks, Pat. You have reinforced my opinion of you. I’m so glad I never joined your Brigade.

[devane617]

Pat needs to be down on the farm with Ross.

[stuartcr]

Must have been, or God wouldn’t have knowingly created those responsible.

[dirtboy]

Christopher, Hitler invaded Russia on June 22.

Napoleon started his invasion of Russia in June as well. The historical lesson was there for Hitler. PAT, YOU ARE AN IDIOT.

[1rudeboy]

Patrick J. Buchanan—Pseudo-Historian, Very Real Dissimulator [Free Republic]

Victor Davis Hanson eats Buchanan's book for a snack.

[wideawake]

This column is appalling for two reasons:

(1) The utter incompetence of its historical analysis.

(2) The dark moral worldview that would support such an analysis.

[montag813]

The Holocaust was not a cause of the war, but a consequence of the war. No war, no Holocaust.

The Jews were treated wonderfully right up untuil September 1, 1939, right Pat?

[allmendream]

Hitler was so committed to the Holocaust that he wouldn't allow trains that were needed for the war effort be diverted from delivering his victims to the gas chamber.

Pat Pukecannon makes me sick.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Scratch Buchanan and the ghost of Heinrich Himmler pops out.

[Catholic Canadian]

This is ridiculous.

[vimto]

“Imagine the millions of lives that would have been saved had someone been able to put a bullet in Hitler & Stalin”.

Well some good people did try and failed.

As a Brit I am very proud of Winston Churchill and I think this Pat guy is talking out of his.......well, hat!

War is entered into not only when a nation's fabric is at risk but also when her soul is. What kind of Britiain would be one that walked away from Europe with an ‘i’m all right Jack attitude’?

I have thanks God for Churchill so many times for preserving my freedom and the nations integrity.

Having said that Nu-labour have squandered the inheritance.

Also I seem to remember us Brits voting none other than John Lennon as man of the Millennium. What a sense of priorities. Ho hum...

[jpl]

I personally do believe that the two great World Wars did finish Great Britain off as an empire.

I also believe that occasionally things happen in the world that are a lot more important than maintaining an empire. They were absolutely correct in opposing Hitler's mad quest for continental domination when most countries wanted no part of another war.

[null and void]

He wrote that.

and this little gem, too:

"Britain twice declared war on a Germany that had not attacked her and did not want war with her,"

Pat, Pat, Pat when you have told everyone that you want to rule the whole world and make a darn good start at taking over a whole frickin' continent, it's pretty clear to even the densest of observers, that an island nation within swimming distance of that continent is in immediate peril.

I bet he really thinks islam is a religion of peace, too.

Mindboggling.

[KingSnorky]

Pat just gets creepier and creepier.

[MEGoody]

The Holocaust was not a cause of the war, but a consequence of the war. No war, no Holocaust.

What a loon.