Pat Buchanan Is A Nazi Sympathizer

[NNN0LHI]

http://belowthebeltway.com/2008/05/20/pat-buchanan-is-a-nazi-sympathizer/

That really is the only conclusion you can draw after reading dreck like this defending the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939:

German tanks, however, did not roll into Poland until a year later, Sept. 1, 1939. Why did the tanks roll? Because Poland refused to negotiate over Danzig, a Baltic port of 350,000 that was 95 percent German and had been taken from Germany at the Paris peace conference of 1919, in violation of Wilson’s 14 Points and his principle of self-determination.Hitler had not wanted war with Poland. He had wanted an alliance with Poland in his anti-Comintern pact against Joseph Stalin.

But the Poles refused to negotiate. Why? Because they were a proud, defiant, heroic people and because Neville Chamberlain had insanely given an unsolicited war guarantee to Poland. If Hitler invaded, Chamberlain told the Poles, Britain would declare war on Germany.

From March to August 1939, Hitler tried to negotiate Danzig. But the Poles, confident in their British war guarantee, refused. So, Hitler cut his deal with Stalin, and the two invaded and divided Poland.

The cost of the war that came of a refusal to negotiate Danzig was millions of Polish dead, the Katyn massacre, Treblinka, Sobibor, Auschwitz, the annihilation of the Home Army in the Warsaw uprising of 1944, and 50 years of Nazi and Stalinist occupation, barbarism and terror.

In other words, all of World War II was Poland’s fault for refusing to believe that a man who had violated every treaty he’d entered into and made mincemeat of Germany’s obligations under the Treaty of Versailles would actually live up to any agreement they entered into with him. Already, the Third Reich had violated a Non-Aggression Pact entered into between the two nations back in 1934, what confidence should the Poles have after having witnessed Hitler’s claims against Czechoslovakia expand from just the Sudentland to the entire nation ?

Of course, Buchanan gets Munich wrong as well:

[hobbit709]

1. "Nazi Sympathizer" HELL!

He IS a Nazi

[Hubert Flottz]

2. Beat me to it!

A Crybaby Nazi!

[noonwitch]

3. Pat Buchanan is a Nazi sympathizer

but he makes interesting historical points at times, nonetheless. We are a free country, so everyone else is free to attack his arguments.

[Romulox]

4. Sounds a great deal like the Russian justification for the Georgia invasion...

Which many DUers have endorsed. Also, all the text starting with "In other words, all of World War II..." is the language of a blogger, not Buchanan. I see nothing overtly pro-Nazi in this analysis.

[LeftishBrit]

5. You are too fucking right - and he is too fucking Right!

and Palin has consistently supported him.

One heartbeat away from the Presidency. One degree of separation from the Extreme Right. Terrifying thought. Must not happen.

[TahitiNut]

6. Any fair examination of the events of the first half of the 20th century would infer ....

... that "WW2" was actually Phase 2 of "WW1" ... and that the manner in which WW1 was 'resolved' virtually guaranteed the advent of WW2. It is NOT an 'apologetic' for the Nazis ... but the ages-old 'habit' of drawing national boundaries without due respect for the ethnic and cultural affiliations of the ordinary human beings affected is an Imperialist Folly. The Middle East is a case study in FUBAR ... where even the very paradigm of national boundaries is ill-rooted in a nomadic/tribal culture.

[SidneyCarton]

8. You are right, due to Versailles, WWII was essentially unavoidable.

However, Buchanan has also reiterated over and over again, that we should not have entered into the European theatre of WWII, arguing that the Nazis posed absolutely no risk to the US. Maybe that merely makes him an uber paleoconservative, who would choose isolation if Hitler had invaded Canada or Mexico, but I sense in Buchanan a wistful longing for the terrible symmetry of jackbooted Fascist formations.

[TahitiNut]

11. I don't think there's any question that Buchanan is a proto-fascist, isolationist conservative.

I find the WW1-to-WW2 political schisms in this country interesting. The Great Depression influenced many to adopt leftist political leanings all the way to the ultra-left communist sector - and that scared the crap out of the capitalist and conservative and fascist sectors - including the Bush/Walker/Harriman cabal, Fr. Charles Coughlin, Henry Ford, Charles Lindburgh, et. al. FDR essentially 'saved' American capitalism for the right and was demonized by the very people who'd otherwise have been hung in the public square had an American-bolshevism taken hold. FDR's decision to blockade Indonesian oil from the Japanese military machine really precipitated the inevitable events that followed, including Pearl Harbor. As it turned out, the fascist right gained an entrenched foothold in the post-WW3 'Red scare' days... with McCarthyism and all. But it wasn't the isolationist right that Buchanan extols - it was a capitalist-imperialist right that translated "American interests" into an assurance that a foreign government would enact, enforce, and honor "ownership" of resources by foreign (global corporatism) powers. Nothing else was of any higher priority - not human rights, not genocide, nothing. That amalgamation of corporate/governmental power is today's fascism.

[SidneyCarton]

7. Had Buchanan been of age in 1939 he would have joined the Wehrmacht.

Had he been in a position of power, he would have tried to make us join the Axis. His sympathy for the Third Reich is both an embarassment and disgusting.

[Octafish]

9. Buchanan also is a protector of NAZIs.

Pat Buchanan: The neo-Nazi is out of the closet

[LaPera]

10. Most television networks has one of these Nazi's CNN/Time-Warner = Beck

NBC/General Electric = Buchanan, Fox/Rupert Murdoch = Hannity, ABC/Disney = Will, CBS/Viacom = ?

Most networks also have more than one.

There is no doubt Pat Buchanan's political leanings are fascist ideology and in private I'm sure Buchanan is proud of his racist ideology as well.