Pat Buchanan's latest besteller is titled: Chuchill, Hitler, and the Unncessary War. Its crackpot thesis is that if Churchill had not been a warmonger Hitler's attempted conquest of the world would not have occurred. Buchanan argues that along with Churchill the Poles are at fault for trying to defend their country from the invading Nazi Army.
Forty years ago the British historian A.J. P. Taylor argued that we should look at Hitler as a rational, aggressive leader -- but Taylor did not give him a free pass the way Buchanan does.
What is most troubling about this book is that a mainstream publisher (Crown) and media are helping to publicize it. This book should be ignored by anyone who respects history. Buchanan should be left to his friends in the loony fascist world who are also publicizing this book.
if hitler and his nazi's hadn't existed and performed their acts of hated, you hebrews wouldn't have your capital back and it would still be Palestine,which no offense is to me just as bad as the european colonization of the america's,maybe if you people paid the palenstinians reperations we wouldn't have half the problems in the middle east!
Posted by: dr. Zeas at July 29, 2008 6:50 PM
Strange, isn't it? Most Germans have utterly rejected the most vile 13 years of their history and wish they'd never heard of Hitler, Himmler and co.! So what in all the world does a a US-citizen want with justifying a psychotic? The Hitlers of this world only see their chances when an economic and/or cataclysmic chaos hits a nation. When democracy fails to stear the "ship of state" back to a safe haven! This is why it is so necessary to defend democracy VEHEMENTLY and to combat economic, social, religious and cultural injustice at ALL TIMES! At the same time a careful study of the Old and New Testaments will give important guidelines on ethics and morals. All this was thrown overboard in Germany (then) and in the world generally (now) so that we must be on the alert. Heathenism is on the "Vormarsch" (moving forward) as it was in the 1930's in Germany and with this comes new holocausts. Jews, Christians and Democrates: wake up!
Posted by: Mike Wegener at July 14, 2008 9:55 PM
I use to respect Pat Buchannan and take him seriously, but No More! Genesis 12:3 definitely applies to him.
Posted by: Sheron at July 14, 2008 1:25 PM
I am sure glad Buchanan didn't get to be president!! What a mess we would have.
Posted by: Shma at July 12, 2008 11:28 PM
I'm sure Mr. Buchanan, the darling of MSNBC, and the McLaughlin Report is getting the publicity he craves. He has established the foundation for his Buchanan brigade lackies. What's even more troubling is the fact that the media fails to see what this man truly is, an Anti-Semite; Anti-Zionist. The best thing we can do to counter him and those like him is to quote PSalms 129:5-8.
Posted by: Brusky at July 12, 2008 1:43 PM
What a nut, he should be ran out of the country!!!!
Posted by: bennett at July 12, 2008 1:28 PM
What is more troubling than the title and theme of this book is that it is a best seller.
Pat has gone to the the other side of darkness.
Posted by: Mark at July 12, 2008 9:15 AM
The man is nuts.
After being a staunch republican for years, Pat has been making a good living knocking on GWB for the past seven years. He's a bit like Jesse Jackson is too Obama,meaning,he is jealous of McCain,because McCain,unlike Pat,was able to secure a nomination and may very well take residence @ 1600 Penn Ave....even for Buchanan,this is a nutjob piece of print.
Posted by: Lowell Browning at July 11, 2008 11:49 PM
PAT BUCHANAN IS OBVIOUSLY AND CERTIFABLY INSANE.. HIS STATEMENTS SHOULD NOT BE SPREAD AROUND
Posted by: SAMUEL KIRSCHNER at July 11, 2008 11:28 PM
Some contemporal Christians personally unexperienced by the war say that it is not their place to determine who lives or dies, so they would not defend themselves if someone tried to kill them. Not only is that contrary to God’s command to dispense out justice in our society, it lets the murderer decide who lives and who dies. Nazis murdered millions Jewish and Polish victims not only in battles but in camps of death. My Father was murdered in Auschwitz in 1942. Hitler with his Nazis was an artist of crime and outstanding slave of satan. People, Remember and never forget!
Posted by: Jerzy Madej at July 11, 2008 9:40 PM
It is sad that this author Buchanan is giving excuses for the action of Hilter. A regime of hate not peace.
Posted by: Jonelle Vargo at July 11, 2008 8:59 PM
the Islamo-fascists seem to have a real friend and ally in Pat Buchanan. What could be nicer than having a fascist world? Hhmmm... lets see.. How about an Islamic globe. Does Pat remember the Taliban? I do.
Posted by: Trevor Wilson at July 11, 2008 7:03 PM
Typical misled Catholic spewing out old biased Catholic thought, cloaked in supposedly intelligent political and historical backwards thinking. I might add that I'm sure not all Catholics think this way so I emphasize misled.
Posted by: bob ward at July 11, 2008 5:51 PM
Buchanan is just another crazy Republican right-winger.
Posted by: Carl at July 11, 2008 4:39 PM
Buchanan has always been a closet Liberal deciever, used by the Liberals to create scism and pull peoples' focus away from the real issues by beating dead Horses and faking good sense and patriotism ... He is just another catholic-NAZI and should be ignored, if not eliminated, by decent people everywhere ... Buchanan hates Churchill because he knew and could prove that the vatican financed Hitler .......
Posted by: Dr. Michael Zidonov at July 11, 2008 2:58 PM
To write such a book that treats Adolph Hitler as a "rational, aggressive leader" is beyond contempt. Adolph Hitler was evil incarnate. I will never buy a book published by Crown again in my lifetime. Pat Buchanan does not deserve another second of my thoughts.
Posted by: Prof. Yoel Nitzarim at July 10, 2008 5:19 PM
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