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The Dark Side of Winston Churchill’s Legacy No One Should Forget [Liberal Revisionism]
Washington Post ^ | February 03, 2015 | Ishaan Tharoor

Posted on 02/03/2015 9:15:24 PM PST by Steelfish

The Dark Side of Winston Churchill’s 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.

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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: churchill; kenya; kenyanbornmuzzie; revisionisthistory; unitedkingdom; usefulidiot; winstonchurchill; yellowjournalism
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1 posted on 02/03/2015 9:15:24 PM PST by Steelfish
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“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.”

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/not-his-finest-hour-the-dark-side-of-winston-churchill-2118317.html


2 posted on 02/03/2015 9:16:58 PM PST by Steelfish
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"He referred to Palestinians as "barbaric hordes who ate little but camel dung."

Sounds like he was a little soft on them.

3 posted on 02/03/2015 9:20:19 PM PST by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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4 posted on 02/03/2015 9:26:13 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: Steelfish
Churchill's racism was wrapped up in his Tory zeal for empire, one which irked his wartime ally, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

FDR seemed A-OK with Stalin's zeal for empire, his OTHER wartime ally.

5 posted on 02/03/2015 9:40:49 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: Steelfish

I can only wish WC was still around to comment on the points his detractors try to make about him.


6 posted on 02/03/2015 9:41:53 PM PST by jcon40
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To: a fool in paradise

FDR had no problem sending Japanese Americans into concentration camps.


7 posted on 02/03/2015 9:44:41 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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To: Steelfish

The WaPo birdcage liner decrying Churchill? Therefore my opinion of him went up another couple of notches.


8 posted on 02/03/2015 9:49:02 PM PST by Rockpile
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To: Steelfish

“no matter how vacuous the context “

Well, you can’t get a more vacuous context than the WashPost...


9 posted on 02/03/2015 9:49:17 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: Steelfish

More gems from this child:

This Picture Shows What’s Wrong With Switzerland’s Anti-Immigrant Hysteria
Without multiculturalism, the Swiss would not be at the World Cup

http://time.com/6441/switzerland-referendum-immigration-eu-soccer/


10 posted on 02/03/2015 10:01:18 PM PST by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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BHO had Churchill’s bust returned to Great Britain?
I thought the bust was returned to the British embassy in D.C. - - -


11 posted on 02/03/2015 11:46:41 PM PST by USARightSide (S U P P O R T I N G OUR T R O O P S)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well done image and text combination.


12 posted on 02/03/2015 11:53:58 PM PST by GladesGuru (Islam Delenda Est. Because of what Islam is - and because of what Muslims do.)
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To: a fool in paradise

Look who his third vice president and spouse were as to that conundrum.


13 posted on 02/03/2015 11:59:26 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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Is it really so surprising or condemnable that a British statesman should defend the British empire and disparage its opponents? Churchill, who before holding office soldiered on the Northwest frontier of India, fought an insurgent Muslim army at Omdurman in the Sudan, and reported on the Boer War was hardly the stuff of an anti-imperialist.

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?

14 posted on 02/04/2015 12:22:23 AM PST by Rockingham
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Thus article does the opposite of what it wishes to do.It reminds us how right Winston was..


15 posted on 02/04/2015 3:59:55 AM PST by Dansong
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At first I thought this might be about the real black mark on Churchill's ledger, his acquiescence to the forced repatriation of Russian WW2 POWs back to Uncle Joe's tender mercies.

But then I realized that this was the WaPo, after all.....

16 posted on 02/04/2015 4:21:13 AM PST by Eric Pode of Croydon
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To: Dansong
Perversely that might be the aim of the writer. Even some of the less rational leftists are starting to get nervous about the Mohammedans but there are just certain things they can't actually say or visibly support, but they can get it out there.

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.

17 posted on 02/04/2015 4:38:03 AM PST by arthurus (It's true!)
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“...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


18 posted on 02/04/2015 5:06:04 AM PST by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: Eric Pode of Croydon
At first I thought this might be about the real black mark on Churchill's ledger, his acquiescence to the forced repatriation of Russian WW2 POWs back to Uncle Joe's tender mercies. But then I realized that this was the WaPo, after all.....

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.

19 posted on 02/05/2015 5:53:39 AM PST by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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To: Steelfish; metmom; boatbums; caww; presently no screen name; redleghunter; Springfield Reformer; ...
So if he was Catholic would you still attack him?
20 posted on 02/05/2015 5:55:16 AM PST by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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