We people are not the ones doing the dismissing, Keith. We people are laughing at you because of YOUR outrageous dismissal of a whole body of historians because they happen to be dead. We people hold that anyone, living or dead, there or not there, were or are entitled to their interpretations. Their validity is not predicated on whether they're dead or not. Genuine scholarship, which I do not claim for myself in this field but which you do claim, would dictate that you take on board as many takes on history as possible and critically assess them on the way evidence has been handled. Good scholarship dictates that you do not start out as Colonel Blimp, dismiss left-wingers or critics of the military automatically as non-historians, then arbitrarily rule out, apparently without exception, the views of a huge body of historians on the basis of their having ceased to draw breath. It's a joke, Keith.