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supergeeI'm not a hard-core Godwinite, but I do oppose promiscuous comparisons to Hitler and the Nazis. So back in 1992, when Molly Ivins said that a Pat Buchanan speech "probably sounded better in the original German," I thought it was a slip from her usual high standards.
If she wasn't right then, though, Buchanan has since lived down to her words. For instance, he said that Hitler wouldn't have killed all those Jews if America had heeded the wisdom of Charles Lindbergh and stayed out of World War II.
It should be pointed out in Mr. Buchanan's defense that he does not make invidious distinctions among Semites. Look what those nasty Muslims made Anders Breivik do.
Thanx to Mercury Rising.
If she wasn't right then, though, Buchanan has since lived down to her words. For instance, he said that Hitler wouldn't have killed all those Jews if America had heeded the wisdom of Charles Lindbergh and stayed out of World War II.
It should be pointed out in Mr. Buchanan's defense that he does not make invidious distinctions among Semites. Look what those nasty Muslims made Anders Breivik do.
Thanx to Mercury Rising.
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Date: 2011-08-01 11:58 pm (UTC)If the French had so much as said "boo!" when Hitler occupied the Rhineland in 1935, the German army had orders to turn tail.
In 1938, the Czechs might have stopped him, had they chosen to fight instead of meekly surrendering their defensive positions after Munich. They had a well trained modern army and formidable defenses, and the German army wasn't ready for war. Czechoslovakia might have done to the Wehrmacht what Finland did to the Red Army.
The Serbs would have fought, as they did in a similar set of circumstances in 1914.
And finally, when Hitler invaded Poland, the French should have marched into the Ruhr. Hitler, like most dictators, was a military idiot who saw in his own army his greatest enemy. His bluff should have been called.