The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #156088   Message #3682169
Posted By: Jim Carroll
03-Dec-14 - 12:49 PM
Thread Name: WWI, was No-Man's Land
Subject: RE: WWI, was No-Man's Land
"Historians."
Your list of historians is a fake - you haven't read them - none comment of the subjects under discussion - one has embarked on a series on the Imperialist nature of the War - Max Hastings (still on your list) has been castigated by the Conservative Spectator for his contempt for the British military (and you still count him as a supporter).... none comment on recruitment, morale, the incompetence of clowns like Kitchener, one blames French, but says Hague was OK.... a mishmash on hastily scooped and unread names - no more than that.
And still you support the continuing sales of arms to despotic regimes throughout the commemoration period.
Nobody has yet commented on the morality of the commissioning of 800,000 ceramic poppies (estimated at £25 per poppy) to be spread around The Tower of London.
I calculate that to have cost £20m (correct my lousy maths).
Is that a fitting way to remember the dead?
Jim Carroll