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Entry: The Good War Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/the_good_war#20480 Post contents: I must disagree profoundly with John Zmirak on a number of points. While his essay contaings some good and laudable points, certainly about World War I, and the terrible American mistake to enter it [point #1], and while he makes clear that he is no interventionist/globalist in the neo-conservative sense, still I dispute strongly his reasoning in points #2, 3, 4, and 5. A strong argument can be made that American entry into World War II in Euorpe only assisted the genocidal policies of the Nazis (after all those policies only took full force when the war was going very badly in the East, and the Reds, propped up by American support, were moving westward). The argument about China simply does not hold together. Of course, the treatment of the Chinese was "morally repugnant." And that justifies the USA making warlike and hostile moves against the Japanese? Is this not an argument used by the neo-cons to justify their hostile moves in the world today? Lets' be clear about something else: that nature of nazi totalitarinism was not the same as that of the all-pervasive Soviet variety. States like Hungary (until the Szilasi Arrow Cross in late 1944) and Rumania (under Marshal Antonescu) and Bulgaria (under King Boris) maintained a great degree of autnonomy, even in alliance with the Reich. Did the advent of Soviet armies and accompanying KGB divisions "spare" Europe of additional genocie?? Good heavens, why not ask the Poles, of the Baltic peoples, or any of the millions of East Prusssian Germans who were brutally repressed, executed, and sent to gulags in 1945-1948.... No, the USA, without even considering the almost total post-war triumph of the Left, should have stayed out of that war, letting the Nazis and Communists to fight themselves into exhaustion and eventual break-up. THAT would have aided in the survival of our culture.... Sent at: 2008 11 23