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Entry: The Real American Right: Part II Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_real_american_right_part_ii#13767 Post contents: Ian comments about Pearl Harbor. It's interesting that in terms of the historical treatment of this episode it is the "revisionists" who have more or less stayed consistent for the past 50 odd years with the "mainstream" doing the most "revising" of it's story, and with each step moving closer to the standard revisionist account. The mainstream now more or less concedes most of the points to the revisionists but argues that the disaster had more to do with incompetence and miscommunications versus outright conspiracy. As if these were mutually exclusive categories. Anyone who has worked in any large organisation knows that 'normal bureaucratic incompetence' provides great cover for a host of sins. Also we still debate as to whether communist totalitarianism is or was better or worse than nazi totalitarianism. This faux debate underlies much of the debate regarding isolationism and the Old Right. And it is really quite false. It is like debating whether having terminal bone cancer is worse than a terminal brain tumor. And of course the third great crime of the WW2 era, the firebombing and destruction of civilians in Japan and Germany is rarely mentioned in the same breath, if only as runner up to the other two. Sent at: 2008 05 16