Pat Buchanan, Historian

I used to hate Pat Buchanan when he was co-host of Crossfire; but it seems that in his golden years he is putting his considerable intelligence and knowledge into telling the unvarnished truth for posterity.

Republicans aren't happy about his latest book, Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World, probably because it undermines the conventional wisdom that "appeasement" caused World War II and is therefore never something to be remotely accused of in pursuit of diplomatic solutions.

When President Bush, before the Knesset, used the word “appeasement” to label those who would negotiate with Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, he invoked the most
powerful analogy in any debate over war and peace.

No man wishes to be regarded as an “appeaser.”

But, as this writer has discovered since my book “Churchill, Hitler and The Unnecessary War: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World” was launched Memorial Day, there is a deep well of ignorance about what happened that September, 70 years ago.

Click on over to Pat's blog for the rest of his post, where he gives you the real skinny.

And here's a CNN clip of Pat with Wolf Blitzer on this topic:


While I'm on the subject of Pat, here's another recent post of his discussing "isolationism," "protectionism," and "nativism." I had something similar to say on "isolationism" myself a while back.