Non-Intervention in the Spanish Civil War Worked Out Just Fine

Buchanan would write off the carpet bombing of Guernica by Nazi planes supporting Franco as a minor crime compared to the aerial bombings that would come later. He ends the column by noting, unlike Mussolini, Franco remained a non-beligerent in the world war. For reference, the Francoist government is known to have killed at least 110,000 people for crimes such as reading liberal newspapers and not supporting the military coup.