Pat Buchanan’s book must be a good one because ol’ V.D. Hanson hates it (along with Nicholson Baker’s Human Smoke).
In his usual belligerent fashion, Hanson stands wholeheartedly behind every firebombing and nuking undertaken by the Allies in World War II. In addition, he makes the ridiculous argument that the Treaty of Versailles was not the proximate cause of WWII; the Allies’ failure to march in and occupy all of Germany after the Great War was.
Hanson closes by quoting an even more famous warmonger (and actual war criminal) than himself: “Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman once scoffed at the peacetime wisdom of postwar critics that came across as mass-produced, feel-good ‘bottled piety.’ Others might call it ingratitude.”
