Something's happening in our culture. The Obama moment is allowing us to talk about stuff in a new way. I don't know what I think about Pat Buchanan's anti-war book, but it's interesting that Huffpo is giving Eric Margolis space to applaud it:
Finally, Buchanan points out a fact, also made by other historians and
this writer, that we in the West have avoided facing for fifty years.
World War I, the `war to end all wars,' produced a far worse conflict.
World War II, waged to `liberate Europe from Hitler,' ended up handing
half of it over to Stalin's despotism. This was, as Alexander
Solzhenitsyn noted from the gulag, an historic act of `stupidity' by
Roosevelt and Churchill, both of whom became enraptured by Stalin.
