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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#29672 Post contents: Buchanan says that WW2 cost Britain her Empire. He's probably right. Lukacs says this was no reason for Britain not to go to war. I think he's right too. As a British subscriber to AmCon, living in London, I probably have a different perspective from most of you. Buchanan tends to be technically right on issues, yet miss the big picture. For instance he condemned the Danish cartoons for insulting 1.5 billion Muslims, a dangerous and foolish thing to do, and condemned the US govt for not condemning the cartoons harshly enough. OK, it's arguably in the US's interest to side with Islam against Denmark. But he seems to have no appreciation of the importance of free speech to our civilisation, or of the natural ties of affection between Denmark, the USA and the rest of the West - what Huntington calls 'civilisational rallying'. Likewise his view that Britain was wrong to fight Nazi Germany - from the point of view of British self interest that's correct, but it completely misses the larger issues at stake. In any case, I don't subscribe to AmCon for a single monolithic party-line point of view. If I wanted that I wouldn't have dropped my sub to The Economist. Sent at: 2009 01 08