Sam Tannenhaus

Now we're getting into the weeds.

But I

Yeah, I know it's true because I see it when I go around and talk about this stuff.

Well, you look at Pat Buchanan's early writing and you will see one of those early books is dedicated to one of his mentors, Professor Irving Kristol.

This idea, right, that somehow that intellectual...

elite declared war on Pat Buchanan over that is untrue.

They agreed with Charles Krauthammer.

I remember him.

I remember him saying the isolationist position is totally defensible and consistent on intellectual and ideological grounds.

And so here's the line Pat had that really resonated with me later.

He said,

We already almost destroyed the empire over a strategically meaningless country, Vietnam.

Why are we meddling in a strategically important one, the Middle East?

I'll tell you another thing about this, too.

Fascinated me.

I found it in the Buckley book.

So after Buckley started National Review, 1955,

It was not long before the Suez Canal crisis, right, over oil.

End of the British Empire.

Everybody favors the Brits, the French, and for once the Israelis.