By all means, let’s learn more from our past.
Coming to your local revisionist bookstore soon: Aside from all of the atrocities you’re already familiar with, World War II was also a spiteful land grab by the Allies and was entirely avoidable! Churchill and Roosevelt were bloodthirsty warmongers who did more to provoke the conflict than previously believed. Oh, and Lefties — perhaps unintentionally– may finally be starting to exhibit some intellectual curiosity about the true nature of their ideological forefathers:
The most visible proponent of the unnecessary war theory is the novelist Nicholson Baker, an accomplished, gentle and entirely civilized man, whose book “Human Smoke” has made him a darling of leftist critics of the American role in the world.
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“Baker shows, step by step, how an alliance dominated by leaders who were bigoted, far more opposed to Communism than to fascism, obsessed with arms sales and itching for a fight coerced the world into war,” Mark Kurlansky. . . . wrote in a review of “Human Smoke” that appeared in the entirely mainstream Los Angeles Times Book Review.
The Allies (the Americans, at least) were far less opposed to fascism because they were fascists. How existential. Jonah Goldberg is smiling somewhere!
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