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Entry: Buchanan & Lukacs--Getting Personal Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/buchanan_lukacs_getting_personal#28757 Post contents: Comparisons of Patrick Buchanan with David Irving are appropriate because, in fact, both men are taking substantially similar positions. The message, in both cases, is that Hitler's territorial ambitions lay in the east, not against Britain and her empire. This effectively demolishes both the need for British and American intervention.David Irving is a professional historian, something which Patrick Buchanan is not. Irving has researched very widely in the archives and has found a wealth of information not discovered by more timid historians.His libel lawsuit against Deborah Lipstadt had an unfortunate result, but it is well to remember that the truth about great historical controversies is not decided in politically motivated courtrooms, anymore than the truths of World War Two were established at Nuremberg. Buchanan is best read as an introduction to Irving, who has already published two volumes of a projected three volume series on Churchill. There the reader will find Churchill's lifelong subservience to Zionism which began very early in his career, his indebtedness to various Jewish financiers who saved him from the forced sale of his estate, his drunkenness at his wartime conferences and his almost uninterrupted blundering over the battlefields of two world wars, his passing off of his own paintings as those of European masters to raise sale prices, his infamous "Order of the Bath" in which he habitually greeted high personages in the nude, his shaking his fist in fury at German bombers which he knew were passing over London on their way to bomb Coventry and a host of other less than savory details on the life of the "great man". It is obvious that Buchanan has read Irving although his works and name nowhere appear in the bibliography of the "Unnecessary War". Irving is a pariah and the ommission is understandable. Patrick Buchanan has carried the debate on World War Two follies as far as it can reasonably be carried under present intellectual conditions. His book suffices to demonstrate that Germany had no causus belli with Britain and that Hitler was proceeding against a very real threat. Just how immediately menacing that threat actually was in the summer of 1941 is only now beginning to emerge from the former Soviet archives. For the rest, the interested reader may consult Irving and even more heretical authors, if he so chooses. Sent at: 2008 12 02