The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #158817 Message #3762177
Posted By: Jim Carroll
01-Jan-16 - 07:58 AM
Thread Name: History and mythology of WW1
Subject: RE: History and mythology of WW1
"and I have expressed no opinion on events before Belgium."
Belgium was the start of the war - what's your point?
You have supported every single aspect of the war
You have either denied or ignored and refused to respond to the effect blackmailing nature of the recruitment campaign, the threats of dismissal by employers, the promises of a short war, the conditions that forced men to join up, and the fact that compulsion was introduced when the recruiting campaigns failed, insisting that people joined up because they believed in the war - you spent a graet deal of time on these - which one of your "three points£ covered that?
For ***** sake Keith - stand by your arguments and stop moving the goalposts
You have supported every single aspect of this war from day one - stand by what you have claimed.
Despite having claimed otherwise, you have at no time attempted to answer how the war was "well led" or how it was a war worth millions of lives.
You have said you have answered these points - indicate where you have or answer them.
How about a New Years Resolution like "I promise to speak the truth".
It really would life much easier for the rest of us.
Jim Carroll