"Your mistake on his war record is just one in a long line of mistakes, "
Of which you have been unable to point out one
Never been able to make my mind up which is the worst - someone who never apologises or someone who is unable to accept one graciously - both apply with you pair.
You really do miss the point with Hastings, don't you?
It's not his scholarship that's at question hre, but what he has written in 'Catastrophe'
Let me remind you of the summing up:
'Dodgy' battalions in the Ypres Salient, wholesale abandonment of weapons and positions, pusillanimous leadership, a reluctant showing at the Marne, a navy that couldn't fire, politicians who knew nothing of war, it all makes for chastening reading.
I would also remind you that you attributed that summing up to me.
"One last point I would like to make Jom. As far as this bit of your last "multi-coloured rant" goes:"
Don't remember your having retracting that accusation - let alone apologising for it - but then again, you pair don't go there, do you?
Why are you pair so ***** unpleasantly arrogant in the way to take part in what the restr of us regard as an exchange of ideas - Im sure Freud would have had an explanation for your behaviour.
Jim Carroll