All of PJB’s detractors don’t add up to one Pat Buchanan. I disagree with him on some subjects; the War on Drugs, other nazi-like domestic impulses, etc.

He seems to not recognize that the United States ceased to be an independent nation with the introduction of the Federal Reserve system. In fact, don’t ALL the politicians eschew that topic, except for Ron Paul? Hmm.

If you can try to interview David A. Andelman author of A Shattered Peace: Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today

First off, I don’t “smoke anything, including cigarettes”. Two, facts are facts. Buchannan is a rightwing mongering fool who makes money by pretending to be against the neo-cons when in fact he supports their policies. Similar to Joe Klein who is now supposedly in a dogfight with the hard right luantic fringe and the leaders of the Israeli Lobbhy. For years this man along with Cokie Roberts and the rest of the D.C. slime have put down the true antiwar, anti-imperialist types as being “weak on defense” and other such drivel. While you focus on “one” thing at a time some of us and I commend Oscar Jones for focusing on the big picture which is exposing Buchannan and others like him for the human trash that they are……………

Pat interprets most of the events he describes in a simplistic manner. Not annexing some territory right away means it was only a protectorate? Mass killings of civilians began with the invasion of Poland, and there’s no reason to believe it would stop at shootings if Britain nicely let the Germans have the ost.

Hitler made it very clear in Mein Kampf that he wanted war with France. This is an instructive passage from chapter 14:

“Much as all of us today recognize the necessity of a reckoning with France, it would remain ineffectual in the long run if it represented the whole of our aim in foreign policy. It can and will achieve meaning only if it offers the rear cover for an enlargement of our people’s living space in Europe. For it is not in colonial acquisitions that we must see the solution of this problem, but exclusively in the acquisition of a territory for settlement, which will enhance the area of the mother country, and hence not only keep the new settlers in the most intimate community with the land of their origin, but secure for the total area those advantages which lie in its unified magnitude.”

But it’s not only Mein Kampf. John Toland and William Shirer’s work contain many details of the Nazi plan to make the whole east an Aryan empire free of undesirables.

If we extended Buchanan’s logic to the Nuremberg Acts, they would be a non-sequitur because Hitler rarely mentioned Jews in public in the early 30’s. But it’s obvious that behind the scenes he had it all planned, he just didn’t advertise it when Germany’s economy was the big issue.

And I don’t buy that “WWII was the good war” any more than he does, it’s just that the road he takes to get there is full of holes.

I don’t know what you guys are smoking, but I have no intention of voting Democratic OR GOP in ‘08. I’m putting Ron Paul down as a write-in candidate.

All of which doesn’t mean I can’t agree with the basic theses of Pat Buchanan in this book. Unlike some people, I do sometimes manage to focus on one thing at a time.