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Entry: Buchanan & Lukacs--Getting Personal Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/buchanan_lukacs_getting_personal#28801 Post contents: Lucaks claims in his review that history does not repeat itself. This is quite true. Not every circumstance in time is exactly identical. However this does not neccesarily hold for mistakes committed by our political leaders. Buchanan's salient point in his new book is that by giving the Israelis carte blanche unconditional support vis a vis Iran Bush is committing the same error the British did in 1939 with regards to Poland. Poland at the end was betrayed. The British could not rescue them from either National nor International Socialism. When American power wanes which it eventually will the same fate awaits Israel. There is a nostalgia in the West for a repeat of the "good war". It allows us to justify the slaughter of innocents that were holocausted in Dresden, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki. When our politicians are in search of a reason to launch off into another conflict 1938 is invoked and another Hitler is just around the corner. First it was Slobodan of Serbia, then Saddam of Iraq, now it is the President of Iran. By now this pattern has become tedious even to the most casual observer. If nothing else Pat's book may be a tiny step to break this vicious cycle. Sent at: 2008 12 02