Pat Buchanan On Antiwar Radio Part 4 of 5

Pat Buchanan, political analyst, columnist and author of Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World, discusses the British politicians' colossal blunders that led them into World War I and II and the collapse of their empire, the consequences of American intervention in WWI and imposition of the Versailles Treaty, Hitler's motive to regain the lands lost in the east and willingness to forsake former German provinces in the west out of his desire to avoid war with England and France, what really happened at Munich, the folly of the British war guarantee to Poland during their dispute with Hitler over Danzig and the real lessons of the second World War.

Pat Buchanan is an American politician, author, syndicated columnist and broadcaster. Buchanan was a senior adviser to American presidents, Nixon, Ford and Reagan, and was an original host on CNN's Crossfire. He sought the Republican presidential nomination in 1992 and 1996. He ran on the Reform Party ticket in the 2000 presidential election. He co-founded The American Conservative magazine and launched a foundation named The American Cause. He has been published in Human Events, National Review, The Nation and Rolling Stone. His new book is called Churchill, Hitler, and The Unnecessary War: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World.

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[ProsperityGlobal]

Pat Buchanan does have a point, We Brits were fucking stupid.

[Torgo1969]

"Don't make promises you can't keep." How hard is this idea to understand, any Churchill admirers out there? As Pat quotes in his book, even Churchill in his 1948 book confesses "Moreover, how could we protect Poland and make good our gurantee?...Here was a decision taken at the worst possible moment and on the least satisfactory ground, which must surely lead to the slaughter of tens of millions of people."

That really should be the end of the debate, as Churchill echoes Buchanan's thesis.

[NationalCause]

Taylor stated that it was Britain's tacking between resistance and appeasement that led to the war. Indeed, if a policy of resistance was followed through it may have stopped the outbreak of war. Similarly, a policy of diplomacy, negotiation, and understanding may have achieved the same end. The two policies combined proved ineffective.

[eternalwanker]

AJP Taylor gave a speech just after Munich criticising Britain for giving into Hitler, and he was hated for it. Than 30 years later, he turned around and said that all of Hitler's pre-war international diplomatic moves were justified.

Monday morning quarterback.