Beginning with his take on Pat Buchanan's new book, Victor Davis Hanson looks at two recent efforts to poison the legacy of the Allies' response to World War II:

Questioning the past is a good thing, but rewriting it contrary to facts is quite another. In the latest round of revisionism about the Second World War, the awful British and naive Americans, not the poor Germans, have ended up as the real culprits.

Take the new book by conservative pundit Patrick Buchanan, Churchill, Hitler and “The Unnecessary War”: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World. Buchanan argues that, had the imperialist Winston Churchill not pushed poor Hitler into a corner, he would have never invaded Poland in 1939, which triggered an unnecessary Allied response.

Maybe then the subsequent world war, and its 50 million dead, could have been avoided. Taking that faulty argument to its logical end, I suppose today a united West might live in peace with a reformed (and victorious) Nazi Third Reich.

Update: Charles Johnson is not amused at Pat's new book, and reminds us of a recent example of Buchanan's occasional convergences with the far left, a topic which Jonah Goldberg also discusses near the end of Liberal Fascism. Here are a few earlier examples.