Ehmmmmm No GUEST - 12 Dec 14 - 04:28 AM - Not that at all.

1: "you have a particular opinion and other people disagree with it?"

Obviously, basic start point for any debate or discussion.

2: "Your views are supported by the historians you have read while others are supported by the historians they have read?"

Ah if that indeed were the case, unfortunately it is not. While one side of this argument have read and studied the material (Including, most recent, recent, past and long past), the other side rely on selective and much narrower sources from the entertainment industry, unsubstantiated hearsay and past historical sources that lack the information available to and contained in more recent works covering the topic. If you agree with the premise that the more information you have on any particular topic the better your study of it will be then your:

"Your historians are better than their historians?"

Is correct, and your:

"Sorry but that is a pretty futile argument about something that is wholly academic anyway."

Is way off the mark (The study and application of History is about as far from being "wholly academic" as you can get if you think about "lessons to be learned").

On one side you have a point of view supported by well documented fact and extensive research while on the other you have reliance on myth, lies and fiction. If your life depended upon it which would you base your defence on?