What the hell is with Pat Buchanan's Hitler fixation?

[ddeclue]

Has anyone heard about his latest book "Churchill Hitler and the Unnecessary War"?

http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl/9780307405159.html

Now Buchanan is trying to pin World War II on Churchill!

What exactly is Buchanan's major malfunction anyways?

:argh:

[muntrv]

1. Pukecannon loves Hitler and the Nazis. Typical repuke!

[marmar]

2. Sig Heil Envy......

n/t

[Tangerine LaBamba]

3. "LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT ME!"

It's the same pathology that afflicts Ann Coulter. The only way these people can get attention is by being deliberately provocative, and that drives them to outrageous lengths.

The absolutely best thing you can do to hurt them, of course, is to ignore them.

[PCIntern]

4. Pat-sy is the vanguard of the revisionist historians of WW II and the Holocaust

He has started the ball rolling...in less than 200 years, Hitler will be as 'well-regarded' as Stalin or Genghis Kahn.

The revisionists have already resurrected Khan: you see, he killed millions of people not because he was a bad guy...no siree...it was a pragmatic decision because he had a small army and could not control the outer provinces so to speak.

If Pat has his way, the Allies will have fought the war for no real reason and Hitler never would have masscred the Jews and Gypsies and Homosexuals and others except for the fact that Great Britain was so bellicose.

He's a giant, dangerous shithead.

[zbdent]

5. some people fixate on what they have their first orgasm to ...

and with Pat, it was to a Hitler speech ...

Of course, that begs the "chicken/egg" question ... was his sexual obsession based on his Hitler obsession, or was his Hitler obsession based on his sexual obsession ...

[happyslug]

6. I hate to say this it looks like he starts with errors that lead to WWI

Basically a lot of what happen and the causation of WWII can go back to WWI. What caused WWI? That is from WWI that we get WWII and the Holocaust, but the causation of WWI is rarely discussed. The Commies do, explaining it as the result of the long term effect of capitalism and that Capitalism was in crisis prior to WWI and to resolve the crisis the world went to war.

Other explanation is the world just went mad, a third explanation was that it was easier for politicians to go to war then to prevent a war (or reduce the tensions that lead to war). WWII is easy to determine but WWI is harder and it is from WWI that the raise of Hitler and the causes of WWII came from.

[Fuzz]

7. It's obvious.

[Swamp Rat]

8. The little mustache?

:shrug:

[Phredicles]

9. I don't know where it comes from, but he's always been that way;

I remember a column talking about it when the Gypper hired him in the mid '80s. And even before that he seemed to think Hitler was getting a raw deal, that people talk about his carnage more than Stalin's (ignoring that Stalin, for all his many faults, didn't start any world wars).

[BreweryYardRat]

10. In a rational world, Buchanan would have long since dangled from a noose.

Neo-Nazis make me physically ill -- even more so since I started taking on a course on European Totalitarianism in the 20th century. I fail to understand how anyone can condone those atrocities.

[Azathoth]

11. I seem to recall that David Irving had a similar take on WWII history n/t

[HawkerHurricane]

12. He's anti-British.

There is a strain of Irish-Americans who believe that the British can do no right. Anything the British opposed they support, and vice versa. The British opposed Hitler, therefore Hitler must not be all that bad (goes the logic). Also, Hitler hated Communists, and Pat as a good Catholic/Republican hates Communists too. Add to that the Republican support of Fascists prior to the war, and, well...

So, what Pat does is combine his Irish anti-British, his Republican anti-communist/pro Facists leanings...

(I read enough of the book to realize that Pat was full of it. He proposes that Britain should have thrown Poland to the wolves to buy time for England to re-arm. Not realizing that Germany was building weapons faster than England could... quite the reverse, England should have gone to war with Germany earlier, when the odds were better. But hindsight is 20/20.)