Further proof that Pat Buchanan is precisely what people say he is

[the_archfiend]

In Respectful Insolence, Orac gets around to demolishing Pat Buchanan's latest attempt to prove that German actions that lead to World War 2. Weren't really Hitler's fault. 

This bit is especially funny:

Apparently history was never Buchanan's strong point. Indeed, get a load of this howler with which Buchanan answers all his rhetorical questions above:

"Because Hitler wanted to end the war in 1940, almost two years before the trains began to roll to the camps."

That's right. To Buchanan, if Britain and France hadn't allied themselves with Poland and then actually honored their commitment after Hitler invaded to take what Germany was due but that those stubborn Poles, confidence buoyed by their alliance with France and Britain, refused to give up, then the Holocaust would never have happened. The implication is that the Holocaust was all France's and Britain's fault! Now there's real Holocaust revisionism!

Uh huh. I've seen some rather bizarre efforts at blaming the victim before, but asserting that Hitler wanted to end the war in 1940 and then blaming the Allies for the failure of that unproven desire on Hitler's part is laughable. Buchanan also seems to forget that Germany invaded Greece, The Balkans and - most importantly - the Soviet Union only after he subjugated France, the Low Countries and Norway in 1940. Some "ending" of the war he had in mind there, eh? 

Pat Buchanan could have done us all a favor and ceased his slimy "respectible" defenses of Hitler's actions a long time ago, but of course he didn't . I'm especially not looking forward to whatever garbage he writes on the 70th anniversary of the invasion of the Soviet Union in 2011. 

Comments

[unhipster.livejournal.com]

Buchanan is actually defending Hitler? What a classy guy.

[the-archfiend.livejournal.com]

Well, he's been playing the "respectable" Holocaust Denial/genteel antisemitism card for decades, now, so I don't think anyone should be surprised. Look up "Buchanan Demjanjuk" on Wikipedia, frex. You'll be nauseated, too.