[Neophyte]

U.S. policy could persuade Germany to become again, as it was in the days of Konrad Adenauer and Willy Brandt, a reliable American ally.

Paul Johnson is a famous author, and I do share his feelings toward France, but Willy Brandt just cannot be attached to Konrad Adenauer by the means of simple "and".

Politically, the two were whole universe apart.

Johnson should remember the Ostpolitik of Brandt The Marxist (and the President of the Socialist International!), as well as his role of the founding father of so called 'third worldism'. The latter trend appeared when, by the words of Roger Scruton, "the toiling proletarian of the European city gave way to the sun-drenched tribesman of the African bush as the preferred recipient of left-wing condescension".

Some quotes from Roger Scruton's brilliant work Thinkers of The New Left:

Willy Brandt did more than any other post-war politician to weaken the strategic position of Western Europe... The Brandt Report is perhaps the most turgid and ill-considered document ever to have achieved the status of a radical manifesto. Nevertheless, its authority is now unquestioned in radical circles...

(The Brandt Report) presents the important facts upon which 'third worldism' is founded...(unquote)

I say, down with Willy Brandt, as well as with the French Muslims as allies! With such allies one doesn't need no enemies...

[WildWeasel]

Isolate the French by watching the EU crumble on its own, then pick up the pieces with Britain, Germany, Italy, Spain and eastern european nations such as Poland who are eager for US friendship.

[Michael81Dus]

Don´t be so harsh with Brandt. He was not that bad at all - we consider his appeasement to the East as an essential step towards reunification (and therefore the end of the Cold War). Even though it was hard for my parents to accept it. But I think the author has completely forgotten Kohl, who surely stands in the same row like Adenauer!

[AmericanVictory]

Recall also his staging of a bogus terrorist incident at the time of the Olympics massacre of Israeli athletes so that he could let the terrorists go, an early precursor of the alliance between Marxists and Islamic Terrorists.