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Entry: The German Disease Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_german_disease#2319 Post contents: edgarh wrote: "In any case, Europe and Israel, cultural affinity is not a vital interest sufficient to squander blood or treasure over." But "cultural affinity" is your term, not mine. WW II wasn't about "culture" (even barbarians have culture), but about civilisation. I repeat: to reduce America's relationship to Europe as one of mere "culture" rather than one of a shared civilisation, is to reassert the premise of the Cultural Marxists. Culture and civilisation are not at all the same thing. As for Herbert Hoover, please don't get me started, because he isn't worth wasting Taki's bandwidth on. Hoover wasn't a Nazi sympathiser (although he was a guest of Goering two days before the Anschluss), but I'll quote Lukacs from memory once more, in paraphrase: "If a man like Hoover instead of Roosevelt had been President in 1940, Hitler would have won the war." (And at that time it was not a war against Russia, but a war to control Europe.) At any rate, the most important thing to clarify about WW II, is that what was at stake was European civilisation, and in that sense, it was not a "foreign entanglement" for America at all - unless you buy into the Cultural Marxist nonsense about America being "multicultural." And a struggle for the survival of civilisation is not at all the same thing as a "quarrel" between sovereign states and their national interests - unless you buy into the Nationalist nonsense (the right-wing counterpart of Cultural Marxism) of refusing even to think about the superior moral claims of civilisation over national interest. Sent at: 2008 05 16