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Entry: The Truth About the "Good War" Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_truth_about_the_good_war#25900 Post contents: The commentator that noted that World War Two is no longer so much a historical event as a civic religion made a fine point. Paleos don't need to refight World War Two. What's done is done. All told Hitler's defeat, like that of the USSR, was all told probably "worth it", but we should not forget the price. Post-war triumphalism, ...and it's not just, or even mainly neocons, who have become addicted to that hooch, ...has encouraged us, indeed misled us, into downplaying the cost ...and disparaging or burying those historical figures who warned of the cost. The cost was not just in terms of tangible lives and dollars, but also in terms of civilisation, morality, the Republic and hard won constitutional liberties too. Recovering from those losses is now an urgent priority, indeed if the WW2 and Cold War victories are to have any long term value, what the war cost must now be regained. If they aren't the Nazis and Communists will have had the last laugh. The triumphalists are the real revisionists, Orwell style editors of history who have redacted from memory what Baker and Buchanan have disinterred. Sent at: 2008 07 24