He's a religious faith that no one is allowed to question without forfeiting membership in Western civilization.
Churchill didn't care about British lives, or anyone's lives for that matter, all be cared about was the British Empire which had produced the magnificent wealth of the British aristocracy.
Unfortunately there was a lot in Churchill’s life that was not particularly heroic—it’s striking that our current conservative establishment is willing to “contextualize” away “bigoted” statements made by Churchill, while ranting against Churchill contemporary H.L. Mencken, when he made his own. But then Mencken supposedly took the wrong side in World War One, in which he was effusively pro-German, while Churchill did everything in his power to poison Anglo-German relations before that cataclysm, which he regarded as inevitable. This came after Churchill helped foment the Boer War in South Africa, which enabled the British Empire to swallow up the Transvaal and other parts of South Africa. Later as First Lord of the Admiralty, he imposed on Imperial Germany a starvation blockade that resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths. This blockade wasn’t lifted until several months after the hostilities had ended. In the Second World War Churchill supported the terror bombing of German cities, at a time when these population centers could no longer defend themselves and when the war was all but lost.
The American Conservative.
Paul Gottfried is Raffensperger Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Elizabethtown College, where he taught for 25 years.
that no one is allowed to question without forfeiting membership in Western civiliz kv
ReplyDeleteHopefully, next to go is the insane belief that government privileges for banks are necessary.
Andrew, Unfortunately there are plenty of economists who still back the existing bank system. So it's a question of demolishing their arguments bit by bit, which is a hard slog.
ReplyDeleteIt's like the IMF and it's claim that the public sector balance sheet is of some relevance - demolished by Bill Mitchell in the article he published today: the emperors with no clothes at the IMF will be very reluctant to admit they are wrong. They've got nice secure jobs with early retirement and a decent pension to look forward to. They have no incentive to change their views.