{"id":12868,"date":"2008-07-16T07:00:24","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T13:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=12868"},"modified":"2008-07-16T07:00:24","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T13:00:24","slug":"purging-pat-buchanan-karl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=12868","title":{"rendered":"Purging Pat Buchanan [Karl]"},"content":{"rendered":"

LGF’s Charles Johnson<\/a> is supporting an effort to have Townhall.com disassociate itself from a recent Pat Buchanan<\/a> column asserting that “Israel and its Fifth Column in this city seek to stampede us into war with Iran.”\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Anti-Idiotarian Rotweiler<\/a>, and doubleplusundead<\/a>\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0are joining LGF<\/a> in purging Townhall.com from\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0their lists of news sources,\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0over\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0that column and\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0another<\/a>\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0suggesting that the Holocaust — like WWII — was\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0ultimately the fault of\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0the West, particularly Britain.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

This is also the thesis of Buchanan’s current book, Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War<\/em>. It may say something about the book that it received this kind of review from John Lukacs<\/a> in the paleocon American Conservative<\/em>:<\/span><\/p>\n

This emphasis accords with what is\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u009dand has been for a long time\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u009dBuchanan\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s view of history. The Second World War was an unnecessary war; a wrong war, especially involving Europe; it was wrong to fight Hitler; and Churchill was primarily, indeed principally, responsible. A man has, or more precisely chooses, his opinions. The choice, ever so often, depends on his inclinations. In this review it is not my proper business to speculate about Buchanan\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s inclinations. I must restrict myself to questioning his arguments. <\/span><\/p>\n

The British decision to offer an alliance to Poland in 1939 was a hasty one, replete with unintended consequences. Partly true. Hitler did not wish to destroy the British Empire. Partly true. He did want to destroy Communism and the Soviet Union. Partly true. Churchill was a warrior; he was obsessed with the danger of German power. Partly true. Hitler wanted to expel Jews from Europe but not to exterminate them, at least not while the former policy was still possible. Again, partly true. Or in other words, true but not true enough. Here is a difference between Patrick Buchanan and David Irving. The latter employs falsehoods; Buchanan employs half-truths. But, as Thomas Aquinas once put it, \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201ca half-truth is more dangerous than a lie.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

William F. Buckley<\/a> famously found it “impossible” to defend Buchanan for lesser rhetoric during the Gulf War — and that was before Buchanan took up defending former Nazis<\/a> and writing about “Holocaust survivor syndrome,”\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0involving “group fantasies of martyrdom and heroics.”\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Buchanan was also recently flacking his book on a neo-Nazi radio program<\/a>\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0(where he apparently defended Charles Lindbergh’s prewar views, though Lindbergh himself abandoned them).<\/p>\n

As much as the aforementioned bloggers conclude Townhall.com has a problem, TNR’s Jamie Kirchick is surprised that Buchanan continues to fill airtime on MSNBC.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Daniel Larison<\/a> may not understand the old saying about\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0dogs and fleas, but\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0I think both\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0Townhall.com and MSNBC got some ‘splainin’ to do.<\/p>\n

(h\/t Memeorandum<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LGF’s Charles Johnson is supporting an effort to have Townhall.com disassociate itself from a recent Pat Buchanan column asserting that “Israel and its Fifth Column in this city seek to stampede us into war with Iran.”\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 The Anti-Idiotarian Rotweiler, and doubleplusundead\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0are joining LGF in purging Townhall.com from\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0their lists of news sources,\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0over\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0that column and\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0another\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0suggesting that the Holocaust — like WWII — was\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0ultimately the fault of\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0the West, particularly Britain.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 This is also<\/p>\n

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