Posted on 02/03/2015 9:15:24 PM PST by Steelfish
The Dark Side of Winston Churchills Legacy No One Should Forget
By Ishaan Tharoor February 3 There's no Western statesmen at least in the English-speaking world more routinely lionized than Winston Churchill. Last Friday marked a half century since his funeral, an occasion that itself led to numerous commemorations and paeans to the British Bulldog, whose moral courage and patriotism helped steer his nation through World War II.
Churchill, after all, has been posthumously voted by his countrymen as the greatest Briton. The presence (and absence) of his bust in the White House was enough to create political scandal on both sides of the pond. The allure of his name is so strong that it launches a thousand quotations, many of which are apocryphal. At its core, Churchill's myth serves as a ready-made metaphor for boldness and leadership, no matter how vacuous the context in which said metaphor is deployed.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
“George W Bush left a bust of Churchill near his desk in the White House, in an attempt to associate himself with the war leader’s heroic stand against fascism. Barack Obama had it returned to Britain. It’s not hard to guess why: his Kenyan grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama, was imprisoned without trial for two years and was tortured on Churchill’s watch, for resisting Churchill’s empire.”
Sounds like he was a little soft on them.
FDR seemed A-OK with Stalin's zeal for empire, his OTHER wartime ally.
I can only wish WC was still around to comment on the points his detractors try to make about him.
FDR had no problem sending Japanese Americans into concentration camps.
The WaPo birdcage liner decrying Churchill? Therefore my opinion of him went up another couple of notches.
“no matter how vacuous the context “
Well, you can’t get a more vacuous context than the WashPost...
More gems from this child:
This Picture Shows Whats Wrong With Switzerlands Anti-Immigrant Hysteria
Without multiculturalism, the Swiss would not be at the World Cup
http://time.com/6441/switzerland-referendum-immigration-eu-soccer/
BHO had Churchill’s bust returned to Great Britain?
I thought the bust was returned to the British embassy in D.C. - - -
Well done image and text combination.
Look who his third vice president and spouse were as to that conundrum.
Also, can it really be said that Churchill and the British are to blame for the brutality of the Indian partition and continuing animosities between Hindus and Muslims? After nearly seventy years of independence, they remain much at odds, with India's small Christian communities often persecuted by both.
Is Churchill truly to blame for India's sectarian violence today? Or might it be taken as supporting his pessimism about Indian self-government?
Thus article does the opposite of what it wishes to do.It reminds us how right Winston was..
But then I realized that this was the WaPo, after all.....
When the left finally begins to panic we will see the beginning of real war hysteria as only the left can create, especially if they see World War with Islam as a great opportunity to totalize their rule.
“...Churchill is a freedom fighter, the man who grimly withstood Nazism and helped save Western liberal democracy. “
note to all liberal democrats - here’s your payback. your own people will turn against you after you have given your all on their behalf
In which MSM the only savages today are those who cling to guns and religion, and are subject to economic sanctions for not saluting the flag of Sodom.
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