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Sir; Join the crowd. Say it loud, and it does not matter what truth is but how strong is your conviction. Do you see now how easily the reactionaries in this country stray into their land where black is white and white is black and truth means absoutely nothing? I would have some doubts about your conclusion too; on the morality of encouraging Poland to make a stand, and on whether Churchill did not push Chamberlain into a corner out of the evidence he had, and shared, that seemed to point to the inevitability of war. Don't you forget that those so called conservatives are your friends, and that they have been in my life time manipulating history to the tune of a cold war, and two very hot wars with nothing but wasted american lives and resources to show for it. Don't get in their way or they will savage you like they savage the truth at every opportunity. The concept of truth means nothing to them, and even the concept of history, because all effort is aimed at preserving the privilages and powers they have today. Are we making a mistake in Iraq? Well duh! But this mistake is not the mistake of democracy which we don't have, but of oligarchy and plutocracy which we have in spades. Democracy is good for nothing but defense, because inevitably democracy must serve all the people, and when it gets hard to be a million miles from home living on short rations, people will inevitable ask the first question everyone should ask first: What is in it for me? If you can ask that question and get a straight answer you are living in a democracy. The Britains and the Germans both were carried along on waves of war for that very reason, that the people were never in a position to correct their government, and could never ask what the payout would be for disaster.

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Pat Buchanan - Regarding Britains Colossal Blunders, perhaps you should do a column about our own colossal blunders. Begin with Spanish-American War, War of Northern Aggresion, WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam and now Iraq. All at unnecessary cost of lives and dollars. Only reason being to show our imperialistic powers to the world. It was said that if Vietnam fell to Communits there would be a "domino effect". Robert McNamara, then Secretary of War, later said that "Vietnam was a mistake." Tell that to the many mothers who bore the heavy cost. Lest you say we had to stop Hitler; reflect of the fact that we did nothing to stop Russia from doing the same thing, yet their conquest imploded on them. Same would have happened to Hitler. Same will happen to us. One country cannot enforce their will on another country - their people will not permit it for long. Our forefathers were well aware of this.