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Entry: Patrick Buchanan and the Necessary Book Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/patrick_buchanan_and_the_necessary_book#30125 Post contents: "....was it really right to lie the Poles into war? What did this accomplish in the war against Nazi evil, other than buy a few months (Sept. 1939 to May 1940) in which to rearm? The Allies would have had that time in any case, had they allowed Germany to march through a compliant Poland against the Soviets." False, false and false. The terms of the British guarantee were that Britain would make war on Germany in support of Polish independence, nothing more, nothing less. To say they were lied to is over the top. The Brits didn't lie; least not on that one. And the Poles weren't morons. Or naive. They knew war with Germany would be brutal for them. They weren't lied or mislead into war, and the British didn't sucker them into it. They just decided they weren't going to buckle under, and damn the consequences. A few months to rearm isn't nothing. Getting the backs of the British citizenship up isn't nothing either. "Had they allowed." Time, perhaps. But on a war-footing no; they're citizens would have yet slept. "...the Allies sacrificed Poland to an unprecedented genocide in order to bolster morale..." Again, morale ain't nothing, and why make the Poles out to be patsies? Why not say something righteous and hopeful about them: that they were the first to take up arms against the Nazi's; that they were the first to take up arms against the Soviets; that their defeat to both --at the same time!!! was glorious; that their persecution and suffering was not for nothing but should earn them the eternal thanks of the world? Sent at: 2008 12 01