Rafal Heydel-Mankoo wrote: Earlier today an American radio program(me) called the "Tom Woods Show" featured a 30 minute interview with Buchanan about Churchill (based on his book, *Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War*). I post this merely for information -- I haven't listened to more than five minutes as I'm bored of Buchanan's tiresome anti-Churchill arguments. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4edDlIGAd2g
Rafe: Good grief, is Pat still flogging that dead horse? For your amusement, a query from a reader just last week. ========= >From Joseph Clemmow (UK): I have a quick question regarding the criticisms made of both Churchill and British participation in the Second World War by the American Pat Buchanan and of his British followers Peter Hitchens. I had a online quarrel with Mr Hitchens over his endorsing of Pat Buchanan's book Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War. He wrote two very mediocre articles regarding it ========= >From Editor, *Finest Hour*: I like Pat Buchanan. Churchill said, "I like a man who smiles when he fights." I helped him research some points for his book. (We are equal opportunity researchers.) He sent me a signed copy, and I sent him one of mine. It wasn't my fault (as I told him) that he chose to put the wrong spin on everything and quote Churchill out of context! Our response to Pat is in the articles on pages 6 and 13-21 in *Finest Hour *139. (This issue also took care of Nicholas Baker's wonderful melodrama, *Human Smoke* .) You can download a pdf at: http://www.winstonchurchill.org/images/finesthour/vol.01%20no.139.pdf Peter Hitchens used to be known as "the good Hitchens." He is the brother of the late Christopher, but comes at things from a different angle. There are three references to Peter on our website: enter "peter hitchens" in the search box. We did take on his brother, when he wrote some silly stuff in *The Atlantic: *http://bit.ly/RQxY8G It was like shooting fish in a barrel. One can't get too excited about this sort of thing. There is a grain of truth to it, of course, since the war didn't end in the brave new world we thought it would. But these iconoclasts operate in hindsight--and they are paid well to keep the pot bubbling. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ChurchillChat" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
