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Entry: The Past Is Another Country--Counter-factual History and the Buchanan Controversy Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_past_is_another_country_counterfactual_history_and_the_buchanan_controv#30028 Post contents: Britons can honor Churchill's achievements without ignoring his failings or his darker side. It's not uncommon to find people who give him credit for his wartime leadership while excoriating him for his other public acts. Americans tend to be slavish in their devotion to the man, and this provokes muckraking reactions, which in turn are taken as lèse-majesté or support for Hitler by US Churchillians, and that incites the anti-Churchillians yet further. If we could see the man as he was, rather than as an icon of political virtue, it would be healthier for us. Hadar does make a good point: Charmley's nostalgia for the British Empire doesn't go along well with American isolationism, which tended to be quite anti-British. One objection to Buchanan's book may be that he has brought together a variety of theories and hasn't really made the material his own. has brought together Sent at: 2008 12 01