WWII: A History Lesson

Pat Buchanan is the most paleo of the paleo-cons. Yet I can remember when he was everywhere on TV - before he managed to write himself right out of the Repub party, which was a neat trick. Now he has written a book about World War II. It's basic thesis seems to be that Churchill was a fool for forcing Hitler to fight the war, kill the Jews and invade Russia. We would have been a lot better off if we had stayed out of it because the Soviets were worse than the Nazis and Russia was the only power that "won" the war.

Debatable. In fact so much so that National Review has put up a series of video interviews of Victor Davis Hanson and Christopher Hitchens (talk about an odd couple) ripping the book's thesis to shreds. It's great fun.

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