by Linda
Here’s the radio show clip that gave the Anti-Defamation League [ADL] a reason to get all fired up against Pat - again. I’m sure the ADL will use this as a key issue in their next several fund raising letters. Listen here….
SOURCE: The Political Cesspool
by Tom Piatak - Taki’s Magazine
Over at NRO, Jonah Goldberg has ventured into the Corner to promote his column. Now that NRO has set up an entire blog for Goldberg to engage in self-promotion, he no longer promotes every column in the Corner, so it is fair to guess this is a column of which he is especially proud. Goldberg’s target, unsurprisingly, is the neocons’ bete noire, Pat Buchanan. The gist of Goldberg’s column is that Buchanan is inconsistent because he wrote columns expressing sympathy for the Croatians and the Lithuanians when they were under attack by their neighbors nearly twenty years ago, but later turned a deaf ear to the Kuwaitis and Bosnians, and rather than have a foreign policy based on “objective national interest,” as Buchanan now advocates, “America should be a good country and do what’s right.”
by Patrick J. Buchanan
Did Hitler’s crimes justify the Allies’ terror-bombing of Germany?
Indeed they did, answers Christopher Hitchens in his Newsweek response to my new book, “Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War“: “The stark evidence of the Final Solution has ever since been enough to dispel most doubts about, say, the wisdom or morality of carpet-bombing German cities.”
Atheist, Trotskyite and newborn neocon, Hitchens embraces the morality of lex talionis: an eye for an eye. If Germans murdered women and children, the British were morally justified in killing German women and children.
by Michael Stahl - Nolan Chart
I read Buchanan’s book. I also read Hitchens critique. I recommend the book.
I actually read Pat Buchanan’s book-Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War a unique thing to do before commenting on it, I realize. I claim to be no Historian, but I am a buff, and read the news of the past every chance that I get. I liked Buchanan’s book, and must say I agree with the central point, that the unenforceable guarantee to Poland just before the War all but ensured its beginning. I will say, of the things that you will find in the book, you will not find any adulation for Nazism, Hitler, or the slightest whiff of anti-antisemitism, implied or otherwise-it’s not there. But this is not a book review.
I also read the review that Christopher Hitchens wrote in Newsweek and was, to be blunt, astonished. To begin with Hitchens asserts that the Holocaust excuses any and all moral qualms about things like “carpet bombing German cities” Even though when the doors opened to turn Dresden into an oven no one outside of the SS, and of course the victims of their fell work, knew the Holocaust was taking place.
Try that defense in a court room sometime.
by John Zmirak -Taki’s Magazine
Neocons think in news cycles, the Vatican in centuries—and Patrick J. Buchanan? In the body of worthy, provocative books he has produced, his thought ranges over decades. Having nobly failed to affect American elections and nudge our policies closer to prudence, it’s clear that Buchanan has withdrawn from the dismal business of trying to sober up the Republican party—and decided instead to work at dismantling the historical myths and moral fetishes of the center-left publicists who now dominate the “conservative” movement. His books are clearly written and remarkably persuasive—which explains the hysteria they have occasioned. His genial public persona, the ease with which he can engage the likes of Stephen Colbert and Ali G (remember “I don’t think Saddam was a threat even if he had BLTs”), guarantee him a broad readership. Indeed, his works are bestsellers and hence impossible to dismiss. They make an impact, and threaten to shatter the groupthink so carefully cultivated over the course of the 1990s, when dissenting voices of the Right were systematically purged and persecuted. They are a species of samizdat.
by Tom Piatak - Taki’s Magazine
Victor Davis Hanson has taken umbrage at Pat Buchanan’s description of him as “the court historian of the neoconservatives,” and even more umbrage at Buchanan’s book. Unfortunately for Hanson, Buchanan’s description of Hanson is accurate, and Hanson’s review of Buchanan’s book shows all the care and intelligence we have come to expect from one of the biggest cheerleadersfor Bush’s disastrous scheme to bring democracy to the Middle East by force of arms.
NEWSWEEK’s Tammy Haddad catches up with Pat Buchanan to discuss this week’s NEWSWEEK cover story on appeasement and Christopher Hitchens’ review of his new book.
by Patrick J. Buchanan
“What Would Winston Do?”
So asks Newsweek’s cover, which features a full-length photo of the prime minister his people voted the greatest Briton of them all.
Quite a tribute, when one realizes Churchill’s career coincides with the collapse of the British empire and the fall of his nation from world pre-eminence to third-rate power.
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