Pat Buchannan wants to know: Was WW II Necessary? by NewOldBrownCoat

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Pat Buchannan wants to know: Was WW II Necessary?

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UPDATED: Thursday, September 3, 2009 05:34
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Thursday, September 3, 2009 5:20 AM

his column:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/uc/20090901/cm_uc_crpbux/op_3311160

and a criticism/ attack on him:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20090903/cm_huffpost/275771

Personally, I think the point is moot. At some point, rather soon after the Invasion of Poland, the War became inevitable, and it was just a question of time before it was world-wide. Besides, it was 70 years ago, most everybody involved is extremely elderly or dead, and it's way too late to go back and not fight it.

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Thursday, September 3, 2009 5:34 AM

DREAMTROVE

Was WW II Necessary?

In a word: No.

In fact, it didn't help anything. People treat this like a great act of heroism. We failed to save the Jews (Not to be so naive as to think that we were actually trying) or gypsies, serbs, slavs, etc.

Actually, a more in depth look proves that we provoked the situation to disaster. The majority of Nazis were opposed to the war, even up to the highest level. Goering said it would be a total disaster. The problem was as much our fault as theirs. They had a radical policy of expelling minorities from Germany, and the west took extreme issue with it (including a number of countries which, like Britain, had expelled jews themselves in the past) The decision to kill the jews instead wasn't made until 1938, after five years of fairly intense international hostility.

It's the same issue as the Civil War: War is not the answer. I think experts generally tend to favor the idea that the institution of slavery would have collapsed in 20 years time, but it's seldom noted that slavery was re-instituted after the civil war for 20 years anyway, so the war accomplished nothing.

As with WWII, the simple solution was, alas, appeasement. It would have been much cheaper to simply buy every slave than to fight the war. It would have likewise been a lot cheaper to assist in Jewish resettlement than to fight Germany. The Nazis were a socialist regime, which by now would have collapsed anyway (Notice that almost every socialist regime collapses upon the death of the last of its founders?) I actually can't think of an exception. It's largely expected to happen in China when the last of the original Maoists dies.

Edit:

I think that I have a tentative solution to this problem:

I call it "If you sell a mouse a cookie"

The point is NOT moot. The same situations come up repeatedly in history, and our failure to come up with better solutions to the last ones doesn't help us with subsequent disasters

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