Pat Buchanan is certainly not my favorite political figure, far from it in fact, but he did write this very thought-provoking piece on WWII and whether it was really worth it. It relates to what I wrote yesterday regarding the Yalta conference, and if giving eastern Europe to the USSR was avoidable or not. Buchanan feels that WWII was simply not worth it. Britain declared war to help out Poland, while France and Belgium were only atatcked after that. Poland, the country the war supposedly started to protect, ended up opressed by the USSR for eyars afterwards, so, in the end, little was accomplished. Of course this all misses the point that if Britain had not declared war, Hitler would probably still have continued to take over western Europe. Oh yeah... And I seem to remember something about a whole bunch of Jews, gypsys, and gays being murdered. I would guess a whole lot more would have been if not for Britain, and eventually the US, entering the conflict.