I'm not sure who's more delusional, the far left of the Democratic Party or the the 1930's isolationist wing of the Republican Party, as represented by people such as Pitchfork Pat Buchanan. Buchanan, who's never met a Nazi he didn't want to defend, now blames the German invasion of Poland in 1939...........on Poland:
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=26606. You see, those unreasonable Poles refused to give up Danzig. Imagine that. I am sure that Hitler would have been
completely satisfied if Poland had turned Danzig (now known as Gdansk) over to Germany. Yup, it would have been PEACE IN OUR TIME.
His points about talking with the enemy notwithstanding (and he's right that all administrations do it), he ought not to misrepresent Hitler's clear intentions:
ReplyDeletehttp://ww2db.com/battle_spec.php?battle_id=162
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?ModuleId=10005438
http://www.humanitas-international.org/showcase/chronography/speeches/1939-09-19.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLDdxoszxuE