Revisionism Going Broadside: Charles Lindbergh Resurrected

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Charles Lindberg Resurrected

Written by Voltaire

Tuesday, 04 December 2007

Patrick Buchanan's new book Churchill, Hitler and The Unnecessary War 
is, in a very real sense, simply another version of Charles Lindberg 
was right. Naturally, this thesis is no more acceptable to the 
political establishment now than it was when Lindberg first promoted 
it - with the overwhelming sympathy and support of 90% of the 
American people.

Before delving further into Buchanan's thesis it would be well to 
dispose of two points-(1) the myth of Adolf Hitler's inherent 
untrustworthiness and (2) the irrelevancy of the so-called 
'Holocaust'.

Hitler undoubtedly broke his word on many occassions, as Germany's 
interests required. But so did his opponents. It was not Hitler who 
promised the same territory, over and over again, to different allies 
in a multiplicity of secret treaties during the First World War. It 
was the French, and especially the British, who did that.

It was not Hitler who offered a negotiated peace with no territorial 
annexations and the right of self-determination guaranteed to all 
nations in November, 1918 - and then proceeded to violate it in every 
particular. That, once again, was done by the British and French at 
Versailles, Trianon and Saint Germain. Nor was it Adolf Hitler who 
contracted that famous correspondence with the Sheriff Hussein in 
October, 1915 - and then proceeded to sell out the Arabs of Palestine 
on November 2, 1917. Political duplicity did not begin at Munich in 
September, 1938.

Whatever one thinks of Adolf Hitler's fast ones - and he pulled more 
than a few-he did not preach world revolution and lying for communism 
as a matter of principle. Lenin and Stalin did - and their every 
order was faithfully executed by a 'tribe' of commissars whose 
Talmudic devotion to dishonesty has been documented for centuries.

The myth of the Nazi 'gas chambers' and the fictional 'six million' 
likewise has no bearing on the issue. World War Two did not rescue 
the Jews from expropriation and expulsion. And, when one reviews the 
excuses for entry into the war, one finds such things as a 
president's desire to use war as a substiture for a failed New Deal, 
the desire of the British to smash a resurgent Germany, the desire of 
the political left to save communism fom impending attack and the 
desire of the Jews to protect their own, but nowhere does one find as 
an excuse a fake 'gassing' program which had not even begun.

What, then, were the real consequences of World War Two? The first 
consequence was precisely the one against which the isolationists had 
warned - the expansion of communism all over the world-east and west. 
Eastern Europe fell under the heel of Joseph Stalin. China and the 
Far East fell under the control of Mao Tse-Tung. It seems highly 
unlikely that Adolf Hitler, even had he won in Russia, would have 
been able to spread his clutches as widely as the communists all over 
the planet. More likely, he would have been tied up in Russia for 
decades trying to absorb his conquests.

In short, even if every charge which his opponents lay at his door 
were true, the net result could hardly have been worse than what 
actually occurred. World War Two also destroyed the European colonial 
empires world wide, something which Adolf Hitler was never interested 
in doing. As David Irving, John Charmley and other English 
revisionist historians have demonstrated, Hitler had no aggressive 
intentions against the European colonial empires and against the 
British Empire in particular. Indeed, Adolf Hitler regarded the 
British Empire as an essential force for stability in the world.

When the Japanese took Singapore, Hitler commented: 'How strange that 
we are using the Japanese to destroy the power of the white race in 
Asia!' The destruction of the European colonial powers had drastic 
consequences for America -  because it was America which stepped into 
the shoes of the defunct empires. The Korean and Vietnam wars are the 
two best examples of America picking upother peoples problems.

Before Pearl Harbor the Japanese had policed the threat of communism 
in Asia. Once the war had driven the Japanese out of Manchuria, the 
door was open for red expansion into the Korean peninsula. It came in 
1950-1953. Had the Japanese been left in control of Manchuria, 50,000 
Americans would not have died useless deaths in an inconclusive war. 
Had either the British, French, Dutch or Japanese been left in 
control of Indochina, Ho Chi Minh and Vietnam would never have 
entered American political vocabulary. Korea and Vietnam, then, were 
real estate problems from a Pacific war provoked by a president who 
deliberately sacrificed a fleet to an attack which he knew was coming.

America also suffered in the Near East from its intervention in World 
War Two. The Second World War left the British, who had been in 
control of the area, exhausted. When the British withdrew from the 
area in May, 1948, it was the United States which stepped into the 
shoes of the British as the sponsor and guarantor of Zionism. That 
mistake has led, step-by-step, to the present disastrous situation in 
Iraq.

There is a direct line of causation back to the Second World War. 
Indeed, it is much worse than that. It was the Second World War which 
generated a huge exodus of very much alive, non-exterminated Jews 
from behind the Iron Curtain on their way to Palestine to invade the 
Arabs and terrorize them from their land. It was the camoflauge of 
'The Holocaust', the myth of Jewish extermination by the Nazis, which 
allowed this to take place under a curtain of media suppression. The 
British had made themselves odious to the Arabs by betraying their 
pledge of Arab independence after the First World War. America, by 
taking over 'Britain's Moment In The Middle Easr' (to use the title 
of Elizabeth Monroe's classic work) has made herself equally odious.

The disasters bestowed on the United States through her intervention 
in World War Two are not yet ended. When America intervened in World 
War One, she made a serious blunder, but not an irretrievable one. 
America stayed out of the League of Nations. She did not set up an 
immense string of military bases all over the world. She demobilized 
her army, slashed spending and returned to 'normalcy'. The fatal 
break in tradition had not yet occurred.

When America intervened in the second European conflict there was no 
turning back. America had abandoned her policies of neutrality and 
non-intervention. America had become an empire, no longer a republic. 
Like all empires, America practices the black arts of intrigue, 
deception and power politics. In innumerable instances, America has 
propped up shady regimes all over the world. The names of the Shah of 
Iran, Ngo Dinh Diem and Ferdinand Marcos come immediately to mind. 
Arguably the struggle against communism made them necessary, but the 
struggle against communism was the consequence of an unnecessary war 
against Hitler.

Vast sums of money, better left in the pockets of the taxpayers or 
spent on domestic improvements, were wasted because of the Cold War. 
The Cold War could have been avoided by supporting Hitler's 'hot war' 
against communism. But worse still than all the evils so far 
described has been the effect of World War Two on the American mind. 
World War Two, in a real sense, marked the birth of the 'New 
America'. When America defeated Nazism in World War Two, she 
repudiated, by implication, 'Nazi' ideas. Since World War Two, 
America has steadily moved against nationalism, patriarchy and white 
supremacy. Any value in which Americans once believed has been 
trashed by analogizing those ideas to similar ideas in German 
National Socialism.

Finally, World War Two has given Americans a false sense of their 
moral superiority and hubris. Because America supposedly saved the 
world in 1941-1945, every foreign adventure in which America now 
engages must be similarly so described. It is this presumption which, 
more than anything else, turns the rest of the world against America.

Many wise and far sighted Americans knew what lay ahead for America 
if she crossed the fatal line between Republic and Empire. Charles 
Lindberg was the most famous of these spokesmen, but there were many 
others. Senators Burton Wheeler, Gerald Nye, Hiram Johnson and 
William Borah also warned of the dangers of empire. Colonel Robert 
McCormick of the Chicago Tribune, the journalist John T. Flynn, 
Colonel Robert Wood, the chairman of Sears, Roebuck and Company, the 
novelist Gore Vidal and the future President Gerald Ford all aligned 
on the principle of 'America First'.

Today, the principle of 'America First' has been perverted into phony 
worship of a phony 'Good War'. Americans were not always so enamored 
of their World War Two crusade. As Thomas Fleming and other authors 
have shown, Americans in the immediate aftermath of World War Two 
were largely convinced that their second great crusade had been a 
mistake. The dread figure of Joseph Stalin stood astride Europe, Mao 
Tse-Tung was replacing Chiang Kai -Shek in China and the disastrous 
Korean War was competing with atom treason and Senator Joseph 
McCarthy for headlines. It had all arisen out of the war. Had not the 
isolationists been right? It was a common thought in those days.

If times have changed, if the passing of Stalinist communism and the 
illusions of Steven Spielberg Hollywood history now comfort with 
Private Ryan bravado, it is still worth recalling the realities of 
the past. For if reality is replaced by illusion, if myth and bravado 
are substituted for an informed understanding of cause and effect, 
then reality shall once again come calling - and a harsh and 
unforgiving reality it shall be.