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Entry: Buchanan, Kennan, and the "Good War" Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/buchanan_kennan_and_the_good_war#28540 Post contents: "A wealth of evidence, ... that German westward expansion was in the cards even before the Anschluss with Austria in March 1938. " The Buchanan thesis misses the elephant in the room: WWII happened because Hitler started it. Not just Poland, but first Austria, then Czechoslovakia, given away by peace-loving Brits in Munich. And the italian adventure in Ethiopia ... and Manchuria swallowed by Japan. Fascists were on the march, and Britain abandoning Poland, appeasing further, and waiting for Hitler to attack West, (Holland, Denmark, Norway, France) would have delayed not prevented the war. "The Unnecessary War" perhaps could have or should have been a critique of Hitler's hubristic over-reach. "the US behaved as an inflexible servant of the Soviet will and as an implacable avenging angel against the Axis countries." IMHO,this was mainly due to FDR's fellow travelling blind spots wrt Soviet Union. He hadthe Commie spy Alger Hiss as his yalta ponit-man and probably believed all those lies Duranty reported in the New Your Times! This is the true problem with the outcome of WWII. We begat the Cold War with this flawed WWII policy that gave too much to Stalin. Sent at: 2008 12 02