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Entry: Will The Unnecessary War Damage the Antiwar Right? Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/will_the_unnecessary_war_damage_the_antiwar_right#29663 Post contents: As Pat quoted Lady Astor, Hitler was born at Versailles. What seems to be missed - it infected the Hannitized, Limbautomized right first, but also the various factions of libertarianism, is what is important is THE TRUTH. Did our actions in some ways enable Hitler, from the rejection of Wilson's points to British guarantees for Poland? There is this tendency both ways. Someone who would be under Mexican rule today says he prefers the Articles of Confederation. Rothbard suggests the revolutionary war could have been fought by a resistance only (with the same result). That the Union and Confederacy would eventually reunite. This is usually wrong as it projects things linearly, and assumes everything else would have happened the same way except for the one event. This is the converse of Pat's book which is a diagnosis. A trace back through events to find the series of causes. And at any point something could have changed. By the time Europe recanted the Versailles spell, the demon had already been summoned. They assumed recanting their past evil would fix the present. It didn't. We must not summon it in the first place. History and the present is the sum of every tiny event - butterfly effect like - which has preceded the particular moment. There are Hitlers in the USA. Many want one to gain power as long as they fight islamo-fascists or provide "free" health care. Buchanan's book is a condemnation of those in DC who would repeat history. Both by shredding the constitution and the Magna Charta so Herr Chancellor could get on with fixing things, and by ignoring the "blowback" and the ordinary problems like expense from the ends of our empire. If we didn't have a military diaspora, wouldn't fuel be less expensive? Sent at: 2009 01 08