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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#29664 Post contents: Marcus's analysis, though perhaps not formally incorrect, is nevertheless too nuanced and depends on too much hair-splitting for the real world to take notice. Pat's books is an act of monumental political folly, whatever its merit (the fact that his thesis is absurd makes matters worse). I have already had on-the-fence friends and colleagues, academics, tell me that the origins of opposition to Iraq are the America First, Hitler-apologists of yore. Pat's book makes it much harder to make a conservative case against the neo-cons, for it goes a long way toward vindicating their biggest libel, namely, that there was an analogy between Hussein and Hitler. It radicalizes the anti-war position and adds another layer to an already overly complicated position that is neither mainstream GOP nor leftists. This book is Wlm. Kristol's dream come true. How can anyone not see that - again, politically, in the real world? For those who want a window into the America First circle of the 1930's, see Louis Auschincloss, hardly a Jacobin, "America First" published in Skinny Island. Sent at: 2009 01 08