Senility

Remember Patrick J. (Pat) Buchanan? A “pundit” (note the quotes) and former presidential candidate from under the loony “let’s kick some Mexican butt!” flag? Well, now Mr. Buchanan has made a foray into European history (in response to the G.W Bush’s address to the Israeli Knesset) and has again managed to let out a giant intellectual fart, this time far louder and stinker than just about anything this side of “Mein Kampf.”

Here’s the link http://buchanan.org/blog/?p=993, dated May 20, 2008, and a quote:
“German tanks, however, did not roll into Poland until a year later, Sept. 1, 1939. Why did the tanks roll? Because Poland refused to negotiate over Danzig, a Baltic port of 350,000 that was 95 percent German and had been taken from Germany at the Paris peace conference of 1919, in violation of Wilson’s 14 Points and his principle of self-determination.
Hitler had not wanted war with Poland. He had wanted an alliance with Poland in his anti-Comintern pact against Joseph Stalin.”

Mr. Buchanan, what you have written is not only a repulsive lie (good Adolf - bad Poland, oh, and Danzig is better known as Gdańsk by the way…) but is also indicative of your total unfamiliarity with the history of Europe. Two strikes in one paragraph, Mr. Buchanan … What’s next, a documentary on “Polish concentration camps”, the treatise on Adolf Hitler, the friend of Jews, or a definitive tome on the history of alien abductions..? And ain’t that little quote from Pope (Alexander, not Benedict) you have so thoughtfully included in your musings “A little learning is a dangerous thing,” true..?