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Thread #158525   Message #3754162
Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
28-Nov-15 - 07:55 AM
Thread Name: BS: Jingoism or Commemoration
Subject: RE: BS: Jingoism or Commemoration
If the war was "well led" - how was it well led?
If it was a "just war" - why was it just?
If we, the ordinary British, German, French, Belgian.... people, actually gained anything from the massive sacrifice that was made what did we get?
If the world became a better place after the slaughter of so many young man - how did it?
All these points have been raised over and over again and you pair have remained silent on them


We have not remained silent.
As you know I have expressed my views on those things, just as you have.

The difference is that we formed our views from reading history.
They are the views of the people who research and write the history books.

You have either not read, or you have rejected, everything written in the last twenty or thirty years.

Why do you reject the findings of the historians Jim?
Do you think you somehow know more about it than them?

You are entitled to think that, but it makes you a fool.