http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/29/pat-buchanan-springtime-for-appeasers/You've got to love how easily conservatives jerk their knees and point their fingers at liberals, labeling them appeasers and traitors, when the reality of historical fact paints quite the opposite picture. From the defenders of slavery who formed the Confederacy to Henry Ford, the America First Committee, and ever onward, the record of cultural conservatives who have readily dispensed with America's interests -- especially the preservation of its democratic institutions -- in favor of their own (usually moneyed) interests is as long as it is disgraceful.
When Preznit Bush the other week attacked Barack Obama (and by extension, liberals generally) as being like the appeasers of the Nazis before World War II, there was of course no small irony, considering that Bush's own grandfather had built a chunk of the family fortune out of business dealings with the Nazis, helping ship large sums of American capital to Germany as the Nazis built their war machine in the 1930s. But the larger irony, perhaps, lay in the fact that a number of notable Republicans, movement conservative icons, continue to argue that it was a mistake not to appease Nazi Germany -- and that America's participation in World War II was a mistake.
The most prominent of these, of course, is Pat Buchanan.
Buchanan has for some years promoted the theory that the U.S. and Britain should have just let Hitler have his way -- essentially letting the far right wipe out leftist movements regardless of the criminal methods employed and with little concern about collateral civilian deaths -- because he would have let white English speakers go unmolested.
Apparently Buchanan has a new book in the works along these lines titled Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World, and he was on CNN last night promoting it. It was something to behold:
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This book is appalling. The things he says here are appalling. That this man is being paid by MSNBC as some sort of expert is appalling. That I have to watch this man on TV is appalling. Why is this man not considered radical fringe? Why is this man considered mainstream conservatism?
Why are not Rethugs expected to explain why they let this man preach in their church?
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