World War II discussion continues

Over the last couple of days, further substantive comments by Tom Piatak, Alan Levine, and Spencer Warren have been added to the discussion on Churchill and World War II, with the main issue being whether Churchill and Roosevelt wrongfully or unnecessarily helped and empowered Stalin in the effort against Hitler. Today, Gerald M. ably puts the various arguments in perspective. I’m impressed by the fact that while Gerald knows about 100 times more about the war than I do, he arrives at the same thought as my own about the motives driving Patrick Buchanan’s perverse refusal to see the danger of Hitler:

I can only speculate, but I think he is so angered by the neocons … that it has warped his judgment, causing him to go “a book too far” … in attempting to connect the decline and fall of the British empire with what he sees as America’s ruination by the neocons. It doesn’t work for the same reason the neocon analogies between Hitler and “Islamofascism” don’t work: there is no connection. They are incommensurate. They are different historical phenomena and must be understood on their own terms.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at July 01, 2008 12:48 PM | Send