those pesky Poles

Pat Buchanan is living proof of the notion that politics are best described as a circle: he's so far to the right that he's turned into a leftist, as with his recent ruminations on the president's ruminations whether or not 'tis wise to negotiate with nutters like Hitler and Ahmadinejad. Who was to blame for World War II? Come to find, it was the Poles! As he explains:
"The cost of the war that came of [the Poles'] refusal to negotiate Danzig was millions of Polish dead, the Katyn massacre, Treblinka, Sobibor, Auschwitz, the annihilation of the Home Army in the Warsaw uprising of 1944, and 50 years of Nazi and Stalinist occupation, barbarism and terror."There were some other undesirable outcomes of WWII as well, as Mr. Buchanan may or may not be aware. And they all could have been avoided, he thinks, if only the Poles had been willing to give up a wee bit of land around the port of Gdansk! Sure. If he really believes that, I've got a nice city called Prague that he might like to buy....
