Was WWII worth it? [View All]

[Senator Lamb]

Any opinions on Buchanan's latest column in which he says WWII was not worth it since Stalin ended up taking over Eastern Europe anyway. This comes as Bush criticized FDR and Churchill for Yalta. Here is an excerpt from Buchanan's column.




When one considers the losses suffered by Britain and France – hundreds of thousands dead, destitution, bankruptcy, the end of the empires – was World War II worth it, considering that Poland and all the other nations east of the Elbe were lost anyway?

If the objective of the West was the destruction of Nazi Germany, it was a "smashing" success. But why destroy Hitler? If to liberate Germans, it was not worth it. After all, the Germans voted Hitler in.

If it was to keep Hitler out of Western Europe, why declare war on him and draw him into Western Europe? If it was to keep Hitler out of Central and Eastern Europe, then, inevitably, Stalin would inherit Central and Eastern Europe.
Was that worth fighting a world war – with 50 million dead?

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