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Thread #156088   Message #3686461
Posted By: Jim Carroll
17-Dec-14 - 06:15 AM
Thread Name: WWI, was No-Man's Land
Subject: RE: WWI, was No-Man's Land
Show us that it wasn't a war of attrition, with men being forced over the top at gunpoint and battle police there to execute them if they were too slow or decided not to go.
"indicates a lack of support for the war"
Did I suggest that - I did not
I pointed out the various ruses that were used to persuade men to join up, many of them having nothing to do with support for the war itself - all dealt with fully in the Paxman programmes
You continue to twist my words in order to make your feeble case a with you Germany annexing Belgium point.
The war was an Imperial struggle, one Empire against another and none any less tyranical than the other, and of all of them, gallant little Belgium is an example of that, as is Amritsar, Croke park and all the other Imperial atrocities
It was, and is fully recognised to be a power struggle between Imperial nations - nothing more.
Jim Carroll
Can't help noticing you avoid the "land fit for heroes' bit. wwhy wouldn't you?