1. This review coming from the author of Liberal Fascism? I think Buchanan is one of the leading lights of conservatism, inversely, the reviewer one of the dimmer bulbs.

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2. I haven't read "Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War" but if PB is making the assertion that Churchill launched the war against Germany in response to its invasion of Poland, then he doesn't even know his his history. Churchill wasn't even in the Cabinet on 1 September 1939; he was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty on 3 September, the day Britain declared war on Germany.

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3. I never did understand Buchanan's Eurocentric view of the world. It's not Christocentric though because he would include S. America in his sphere of alliance. He needs to wake up and understand that we have friends and enemies all over the world.

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4. Buchanan was as interventionist as anyone when the enemy was the Soviet Union. Quemoy and Matsu never had a stouter defender. Since Communism's fall he chooses to defend white, Catholic or Christian nations. I was for the Latvians and the Croatians, but also for Kuwait and Iraq. I happen to think Latvia and Croatia are much more likely to make decent governments than Kuwait and Iraq but even there Kuwait has had a few surprises and Iraq may turnout not to be as bad as was thought even a few years ago. Every war is a war of choice. You can always choose to surrender.

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5. Scott wants to have pat's baby

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6. this op ed piece took pats comments way out of context. pat never clammored for war for croatia or lithuania. pats timing of his antichurchill book is 60 years late and has little bearing on todays politics except to pad his own bank account but pat overall is far more consistent than the likes of o reily, hannity and todays neocons. st

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