Disappointment
May 28th, 2008So I’m sitting with my laptop working on a couple of things and Pat Buchanan comes on CNN to talk about his latest book about how Churchill is responsible for World War II and the Holocaust, and Hitler really didn’t mean any harm but Churchill’s cabal pushed him into a corner. I said, “Get that Nazi off of my television!” and you could see that Wolf Blitzer was as unenthusiastic about listening to his nonsense as I am. What might offend me more than his heinous refusal to acknowledge unequivocally that Hitler was an evil man responsible for some of the world’s worst atrocities because of his expansionist ambitions is his attempt to pawn the Cold War off on Winston Churchill, not in the way that far-leftists claim that we were too aggressive but in his more-alarming and equally-disingenuous assertion that Churchill was “blind” to Stalin’s “true ambitions.” Churchill was among the first leaders of the world to understand what Stalin and the USSR were, and what the relationship with them would be after the War. To blame him for coddling Stalin or loving Stalin or whatever spurious claims Buchanan makes of the Prime Minister is reprehensible, and I am disappointed that CNN would allow an apologist for Hitler valuable air-time. Wolf Blitzer is too.