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Buchanan wrote a piece in May for Townhall.com which suggests that negotiating with hostile states isn't necessarily a bad thing, given what we find in the history of 20th century geopolitics. In fact, negotiating can avert far worse things, and could possibly have been used to prevent Hitler from invading Poland in 1939. Thoughts on this?Bush Plays the Hitler Card
Now how in the world could negotiating have prevented Hitler from invading Poland when he and Stalin had already mutually agreed to invade Poland in order to carve it up? He already negotiated to invade the country so what gives? Buchanan is a little off the mark here.
Have to agree with Don here. Hitler was determined to invade Poland and start the war in 1939. He felt Germany's military edge slipping away and negotiation would have just proved the weakness of the democracies and increased hi sense that the timing was right. The allied capitulation at Munich helped convince him that the democracies would not lift a finger in the case of a Polish invasion so it is hard to see how further negotiations would have averted the war. Buchanan, is more than a little off the mark here.There is a time and place for negotiation just as there is a time and place to stand firm and be prepared to go to war. The Invasion of Poland was a case where no amount of negotiation could have stopped the German invasion. Delayed maybe, but stopped, no.
