[Peace-discuss] The "two faces" of Winston Churchill

[C. G. Estabrook]

  Nicely put.

On 8/16/10 10:42 AM, David Green wrote:
> http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/
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> I don't think that there is as much irony or mystery about WC as Greenwald and
> NYT reviewer Hari make out to be. Hari refers disparigingly to Nicholson Baker's
> "Human Smoke," which I think gets WC about right. He was a monster. There is no
> more reason to revere Churchill for "defeating" Hitler than there is to revere
> Stalin, who in fact really did defeat him. I was not surprised by the NYT
> review, only a little surprised by Hari, and somewhat more surprised by
> Greenwald's take.
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> DG
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