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

[John W.]

I hope G*d is more merciful in His assessment of the two of you than you are
in your assessment of virtually every human being on earth, living and
dead.  Meanwhile, though, it must be glorious to possess such Olympian
wisdom derived from books.



On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 11:04 AM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu>wrote:


>  Nicely put.
>
>
> On 8/16/10 10:42 AM, David Green wrote:
>
>> http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> DG
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