Pat Buchanan has The Churchill Cult pegged in his great new book, Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War. One reason for writing the book, says Pat, is:

“There has arisen among America’s elite a Churchill cult. Its acolytes hold that Churchill was not only a peerless war leader but a statesman of unparalleled vision whose life and legend should be the model for every statesman. To this cult, defiance anywhere of U.S. hegemony, resistance anywhere to U.S. power becomes another 1938. Every adversary is ‘a new Hitler,’ every proposal to avert war ‘another Munich.’”

“After 9/11, the Churchill cult helped to persuade an untutored president that the liberation of Iraq from Saddam would be like the liberation of Europe from Hitler. We would be greeted in Baghdad as our fathers and grandfathers had been in Paris . . . and George W. Bush would enter history as the Churchill of his generation . . . . This Churchill cult gave us our present calamity. If not exposed, it will produce more wars and more disasters . . .”

Pat is right on. The purpose of this Churchill Cult, like the Lincoln Cult, is to propagandize on behalf of statism and foreign policy imperialism.