Pat Buchanan Again Calls the American Entry Into WWII Unnecessary

Happy VE day, huh?

He does seem like a nice guy. Too bad he's, well, an anti-semite.

I'm not really sure how Buchanan supports the American struggle against the Communists during the Cold War and yet can't manage to endorse the fight against the Nazis. Perhaps he'd say that the Cold War struggle involved far fewer troops actually engaged in fighting (although, over the 40 years of the Cold War, quite a few American boys were dispatched around the globe to fight Communism, often indirectly and often in places that were just not as important to us as Europe).

And of course Cold War confrontations risked a much higher bodycount than all of our losses in WWII.

As William F. Buckley concluded in a long essay on Pat way back in the late eighties (I think), Buchanan takes a number of positions, each of which seems defensible on its face, and yet, taking them all together, the cumulative impression is that he just hates Jews.

My words, not WFB's. But that seemed to be WFB's basic gist.

posted by Ace at 10:00 AM

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