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Entry: Buchanan, Kennan, and the "Good War" Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/buchanan_kennan_and_the_good_war#28475 Post contents: Buchanan’s association with Kennan is very interesting as is the conservative revision of the Cold War and its consequences. In an interview on Antiwar.com radio Charles Goyette asked Buchanan if he might pursue his research into Cold War revisionism. He replied, “that might be ‘a bridge too far’.” But I think it is heartening that conservatives can admit their errors and keep an open mind in their pursuit of the truth, the humble prerogative denied the clerisy of the warfare state. I just have two questions about your observations. You wrote, “I am also not convinced by Buchanan’s suggestion that since Stalin exterminated more people than Hitler that Churchill made the wrong decision, in effect, using Stalin to deal with Hitler. In terms of England’s geopolitical interests, Nazi Germany represented a much greater threat than Soviet Russia, particularly after Hitler had launched Operation Barbarossa.” At the outbreak of the war, who had Hitler exterminated? In Human Smoke: the Beginnings of World War II and the End of Civilization, Nicholson Baker sees the Holocaust emerging from the war itself rather as a cause for the war. What English geopolitical interests were threatened by Germany? It’s my understanding that Hitler wanted an alliance with England and supported the British Empire. Sent at: 2008 12 02