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October 12, 1999 - 2:14 PM
KEEGAN PRAISES BUCHANAN AS
'REMARKABLE MAN OF GREAT INTELLIGENCE'
VIENNA, VA -- On September 28, 1999, British historian Sir John Keegan was interviewed on WJR Detroit. While the great military historian dissented with what he called Buchanan's "Washingtonian, Jeffersonian point of view of the United States' role in the world...that it's a city on a hill," he praised Mr. Buchanan's intelligence and character, and seconded Mr. Buchanan's assessment of Hitler's priorities as presented in A Republic, Not An Empire.
KEEGAN: "I don't think he [Hitler] would ever have attacked the United States straight off. I don't think he would ever have tangled with the United States if he hadn't got into the sequence of events which led to fighting France, then fighting Britain, then fighting Russia. You know, fighting the United States was very, very low down Hitler's order of priorities. His plan was to defeat France, do a deal with Britain which didn't come off, and then turn on Russia."
HOST DAVID NEWMAN: "Pat Buchanan has answered critics a couple of different ways. He points to Hitler's reluctance to engage the U.S. through 1941. That is a matter of historical record and the critics don't seem to understand that."
KEEGAN: "Until Pearl Harbor, Hitler was very careful to keep out of trouble with the U.S."
KEEGAN'S SUMMARY: "I deeply admire Pat Buchanan. I think he's a remarkable man, of great intelligence, in many ways estimable moral outlook, but I do think he's kind of shouting against the wind."
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