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Entry: Buchanan, Kennan, and the "Good War" Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/buchanan_kennan_and_the_good_war#28482 Post contents: Anti-German hysteria was evidently whippped up prior to, and during WWI. I recall my best friend's stories of how his Wisconsin dairy farm family, changed their name from Ranke to Rank, because nobody would buy milk from a "German"... Even now, 50 years later, the fear is part of their family legacy. Another observation I agree with you on is the importance of a 2 front war in defeating Hitler's Germany. With all the hoopla about the "Greatest Generation" that Tom Brokaw has been spreading, the fact is that WWII was a war of attrition with Nazi Germany, with the Russian's suffering most of the attrition. Stalin knew he was being used, and that's why he resolved to demand that Russia come out of the war with something to show for it besides a devasted landscape and acres of mass graves and cemetaries. In the light of this truth, a lot of the "Greatest Generation" hubris is just plain hard to listen to. Aside from the differences that you might have with Buchanan over Poland and Hitler's claims to get back German land and people stripped from it by Versailles, I think it's widely acknowledged that WWII was just an extention of the unresolved issuses of WWI. And in light of current events and the Wilsonian crusade to turn the Mideast into a secular humanist, consumer capitalist culture under domination of International Finance Capitalism, will only end up in the end of the USA as a world power by the early 21rst Century, just like WWI/WWII led to the end of British power and influence in the 20th Century. That is the message of Buchanan's book... Sent at: 2008 12 02