[Tektalkdiscussion] Fw: Accessible World Presents A World View of History January, 20, 2010

[Bob Acosta]

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Subject: Accessible World Presents A World View of History January, 20, 2010


News Wire

Come join us on the twentieth day of January in the new year and discuss the 
best seller “Churchill, Hitler,and ‘the Unnecessary War’: How Britain Lost 
It’s Empire and the West Lost the World” (db66888)and listen to an interview 
with the author, Patrick J. Buchanan.

Only a Patrick J. Buchanan with his right-wing credentials could say that 
World War One and Two “were unnecessary” challenging what most Americans 
believe, that World War Two was the “good war” and World War One the “great 
War”.  Patrick Buchanan, Presidential speechwriter and White House advisor 
to three Presidents, as well as Presidential candidate and TV pundit thinks 
differently. Buchanan provides a well-written and well documented 
justification of his historical interpretation. Whether or not you agree 
with his political philosophy or his Jeremiads about the decline of the 
Christian West, which are confined mostly to the Preface, the book is well 
worth reading.

Buchanan states the question is “not whether the British were heroic…” “But 
were their statesmen wise”. Thee following quotation provides the kernel of 
his argument.

“And it was Britain that turned both European wars into world wars. Had 
Britain not declared war on Germany in 1914, Canada, Australia, South 
Africa, New Zealand, and India would not have followed the Mother Country 
in. Nor would Britain's ally Japan. Nor would Italy, which London lured in 
with secret bribes of territory from the Habsburg and Ottoman empires. Nor 
would America have gone to war had Britain stayed out. Germany would have 
been victorious, perhaps in months. There would have been no Lenin, no 
Stalin, no Versailles, no Hitler, no Holocaust.

Had Britain not given a war guarantee to Poland in March 1939, then declared 
war on September 3, bringing in South Africa, Canada, Australia, India, New 
Zealand, and the United States, a German-Polish war might never have become 
a six-year world war in which fifty million would perish.”
Why did Britain declare war on Germany, twice? As we shall see, neither the 
Kaiser nor Hitler sought to destroy Britain or her empire. Both admired what 
Britain had built. Both sought an alliance with England. The Kaiser was the 
eldest grandson of Queen Victoria. Thus the crucial question: Were these two 
devastating wars Britain declared on Germany wars of necessity, or wars of 
choice?” {From Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain 
Lost its Empire and the West Lost the World: First edition,
 Introduction pages xvi-xvii}

Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire 
and the West Lost the World
Buchanan, Patrick J. Read by Ted Stoddard. Reading time 15 hours 58 minutes.
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.66888
NLS RC66888, Bookshare.org
AUDIBLE unabridged
February’s choice: Shays’s Rebellion: The American Revolution’s Final Battle 
DB68561
The group will meet at the same time the third Wednesday of every month and
will be facilitated by Don Queen, Email: queens at pacbell.net

Date: Wednesday, January 20th. 2010

Time: 6:00 PM PST, 7:00 PM MST, 8:00 PM CST, 9:00 PM EST
          and elsewhere in the world Thursday 2:00 GMT.

Approximately 20 minutes prior to the event start time; go to A World View 
of History at:

http://conference321.com/masteradmin/room.asp?id=rsf0c95f474b43

Or, alternatively,

Select A World View of History Room at: www.accessibleworld.org
Enter your first and last names on the sign-in screen.

If you are a first-time user of the Talking Communities online conferencing 
software, there is a small, safe software program that you need to download 
and then run. A link to the software is available on every entry screen to 
the Accessible World rooms.

All online interactive programs require no password, are free of charge, and 
open to anyone worldwide having an Internet connection, a computer, 
speakers, and a sound card. Those with microphones can interact audibly with 
the presenters and others in the virtual audience. To speak to us, hold down 
the control key and let up to listen. If no microphone is available, you may 
text chat with the attendees.

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Robert Acosta, Chair
Accessible World
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Email: boacosta at pacbell.net
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Joann Becker, Events Coordinator
Accessible World
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