Kevin, if a History professor can say this, why does it make me wrong to go along with it.
Is he not well informed enough?
What makes you so sure he does not understand properly?

"The war was fought for defensive reasons and Europe would have been a very dark place if Germany had not been defeated. Imperial Germany wasn't as bad as Nazi Germany but it was bad enough," he said. "We don't want this year to be a jingoistic carnival of celebration but rather a sober understanding that what Britain was fighting for was important. It was a war against aggression," he added."