"That is the findings of the military historians."
No it isn't - not all of them by any means - you refused to read the list of nearly 200 you were given because it was "tto large"
You dismissed the historians who actually said it was ba
dly led because they wer "dead" or "not real historians" or obscure and "didn't sell their books in "real" bookshops"
You ave refused even to comment on the actual examples of bad leadership on the grounds of your now self-confessed ignorance (having claimed you have made a "lifelong study of the war"
You have sought out out-of-contexts quotes fro, less than half-a-dozen historians which you have not read, nor do you understand (or more likely - have deliberately distorted).
Historians are not gods - their opinions as to the justification of this colonial family squabble which ended the lives of millions of young men are worth no more than those on historians who describe th war as a waste of human life - historians don't deal in the ethics of colonial wars - it is not their field.
Sheffield is an employee of the military establishment making his views of the history of the war suspect and the morality of the war useless yet he continus to be one of your gallant less-then-half-dozen witnesses!!
Yoiou sais you studied thewar - you didn't
You claimed to have read a book by one of your historians - you obviously haven't, and you refuse to respond to what she actually says.
As I said - the most dishonest contributor to this forum by far.
Your only support for your case is from a bullying, blustering no-mark who would like us to believe he has a service record but in fact never got nearer that the sink in a ships galley.
You have no case - you have never had a case yet you continue to justify the decimation of a generation - and you call those who fought in it "liars" if what they had to say challenges your jingoism.
It seems the war isn't the only thing lacking ethics.
Jim Carroll

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