Opinion of Pat Buchanan

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seemed like a cool guy in the late 60s/early 70s.  try to track down HST's accounts of hanging out and drinking with him... should be in that first volume they put out, "The Great Shark Hunt".  

I suppose that's why I don't have much of an aversion to him.  he's not full of sh**t, so he could never be a successful Republican politician.  and he has a natural levity about him that allowed him to be friends with Dem campaign operatives, and left-wing journalists like Hunter Thompson.

so I'll vote FF because a) he's not a dedicated liar and b) has a sense of humor.


(ps: minimal Google skills can lead you to a pdf of The Great Shark Hunt.  I won't directly link to it -- Alcon used to get on my ass about linking directly to what likely are copyright violations.  I'm still scarred from that one time I posted an mp3 of a Fall Out Boy song that I had hosted on Freewebs and he tore it down for suspicion of copyright violation).

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The greatest man never to have been President, regardless of the skeletons in his closet.

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How does the fact that Pat Buchanan is a fan of Hitler factor into that?

Believing that half a million Americans and a million western Europeans should not have died in a war for Poland's territorial integrity does not a Nazi make.

I don't understand: he believes aiding the USSR on the Eastern Front was a poor idea, the USA only should have aided UK/France on the Western Front?

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Buchanan's take on it is that the British guarantee to Poland should never have been made because it was unenforceable and contrary to British interests. Without the guarantee, the Poles would have been forced to the table and there would have been no war between Germany and the western European powers. He believes that once at war, Britain should have accepted Hitler's 1939 and 1940 peace offers when the German conquest of Poland was a fait-accompli and that the Nazi and Soviet regimes might have crumbled without western intervention if they had been left to fight a protracted war between themselves.

He wrote a whole book on the subject. Even if you disagree with some or all of it, I think it's a pretty interesting read.

ok, I'll check it out.  counterfactuals are fun

I guess it's possible that the Nazis and Soviets could have beat each other to sh**t while the bourgeois republics sat and watched