| TheRealMafoo said:
I would chill out with the Pat Buchanan quotes. One could also use this one:
"Though Hitler was indeed racist and anti-Semitic to the core, a man who without compunction could commit murder and genocide, he was also an individual of great courage, a soldier's soldier in the Great War, a political organizer of the first rank, a leader steeped in the history of Europe, who possessed oratorical powers that could awe even those who despised him...Hitler's success was not based on his extraordinary gifts alone. His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws, the weakness masquerading as morality that was in the hearts of the statesmen who stood in his path." -- Pat Buchanan.
or the many other quotes of his that show Nazi sympathy. When talking about immigration, I am not sure I would want to stand behind him as my spokesman. |
You could say the same thing about many a brutal leader. I don't see anything remotely anti-semetic or pro-hitler in that quote as you seem to imply. Buchanan was merely stating characteristics that Hitler had, characteristics that many leaders both good or evil had that made a big name for themselves.
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
