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Thread #156239 Message #3684341
Posted By: Big Al Whittle
10-Dec-14 - 12:36 PM
Thread Name: BS: I am not an historian but........
Subject: RE: BS: I am not an historian but........
lets be fair Keith. its not unknown for you get into intense discussions with every leftie/ Irish nationalist on the site and demand truth and proof, where none could ever exist. its a bit like Jim Carro;; with is endless litany - well what is folk music if its not the 1954 definition? however often we say we don't want folk music defined - if someone comes into our folk club with something that delights -its good enough for us, Jim won't have it. there has to be a definition as far as he's concerned.
lets take this present case. let us suppose that Haig had the tactical skill of Julius Caesar, the sagacity of Talleyrand, the brilliance of Henry V at Agincourt. let us suppose all these blokes describing themselves as historians are not just jumping on the latest fashionable nonsense.
you would still be in the wrong. what you are doing is akin to going into a synagoguue and saying Hitler was the greatest friend to world Jewry. after all he had precipitated the setting up the state of Israel. you would be offending a racial memory.
the sacred racial memory of our race is the young men who were mown down by machine guns, and submitted bravely to this gross abuse. ...
the next generation won't give a shit. but we grew up with the survivors. the white crosses and the cenotaph and the poppies won't mean so much, if anything. perhaps they will ready for your truths. we're not.