{"id":5465,"date":"2009-03-31T07:59:53","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T15:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=5465"},"modified":"2009-03-31T07:59:53","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T15:59:53","slug":"the-greatest-blunder-in-british-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/31\/the-greatest-blunder-in-british-history\/","title":{"rendered":"The Greatest Blunder in British History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was 70 years ago on March 31 when Great Britain committed the fatal blunder that led to World War II: issuing a war guarantee to Poland. This was the war, as Pat Buchanan says in his recent book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Churchill-Hitler-Unnecessary-Patrick-Buchanan\/dp\/B001JYM1GC\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1238423696&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War<\/em><\/a>, that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153led to the slaughter of the Jews and tens of millions of Christians, the devastation of Europe, Stalinization of half the continent, the fall of China to Maoist madness, and half a century of Cold War.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Buchanan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s book is essential for understanding why World War II was so unnecessary.<\/p>\n<p>So begins my article\u00c2\u00a0on <em>The New American<\/em> website. You can continue reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewamerican.com\/history\/european\/938\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was 70 years ago on March 31 when Great Britain committed the fatal blunder that led to World War II: issuing a war guarantee to Poland. This was the war, as Pat Buchanan says in his recent book, Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War, that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153led to the slaughter of the Jews and tens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5466,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5465\/revisions\/5466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5465"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}