So when's the debate with Zinn and Chomsky scheduled?
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As we say in the intro/jacket flap, we reject "My Country, Right or Wrong," but we equally reject "My Country, Always Wrong." I think you'll find us quite critical of such aspects of our past-such as the Founders' unwillingness to actually act on slavery on at least three separate occasions; or about Teddy Roosevelt's paternalistic regulations and his anti-business policies. On the other hand, as conservatives, we nevertheless destroy the myth that FDR "knew" about the Pearl Harbor attack in advance. Instead, we try to always put the past in the context of the time — why did people act then as they did, and was that typical?
I find the POV of a balanced perspective refreshing in contrast with the PC diatribes inserted into many modern US history books these days from liberal authors. Regarding the latter, I think the one-note, anti-U.S., BAMN perspective of modern PC revisionist historians hurts their own cause.
However, I am not sure that FDR didn't know about the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor in advance. There is just too much smoke associated with that for me to deny categorically that there was any fire. (Anyone know a good online rebuttal to At Dawn We Slept?)
Terrific interview - very cool!