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Thread #157976   Message #3732790
Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
24-Aug-15 - 04:01 AM
Thread Name: BS: Sigh
Subject: RE: BS: Sigh
Raedwulf, Musket is coy about his views on WW1.
This random post from the thread I linked to last week gives the gist of it.

RE: BS: Armistice Day (debate)
From: GUEST,Musket - PM
Date: 17 Nov 13 - 06:36 AM

No amount of quoting those paid to revise history is going to further your cause Keith.

We commemorate Remembrance Sunday NOT to remember how we won a war or two, but to ensure we learn from the mistakes of the past. We don't set up cenotaphs to those taken by cancer or coronary heart disease, or those killed at work, or those in car accidents... We do it for the fallen in war.

Why?

To make sure those with an appetite for war are reminded of the mistakes and callous disregard for human life that the disgraceful senior staff at The War Office had in those days. They started the remembrance idea in order to remind ourselves how good we are at war, but the idea was taken over by far more rational thought than they could ever realise.

We remember to try to make sure we don't make the mistakes again, however unsuccessful we seem to be.

Your idolising of revisionist hacks is a barrier to facing the cold facts that our fallen were all in vain. Slaughtered for no reason in the First World War and slaughtered in the Second World War because we couldn't even get the peace right....

Does it worry you that they were duped into believing jingoistic lies? Does it worry you that most were killed through the disgraceful actions of their leaders?

Does it worry you that there is no glory in war, just futile death.

Cheer leaders for military fools should hang their heads in shame, as they are a hindrance to remembering why we stand there each year.

Sorry Keith, but in the "Masters of War" debate, they seem to retain their servants......