A Prophylactic against Churchill-Worship
As prescribed by Dr. Harry Elmer Barnes:
“Churchill led in the denunciation of the alleged horrible atrocities and brutalities of the Nazis, but his record is surely no better. He rejected Hitler's proposal at the outset of the War to ban all bombardment of non-military objectives and launched this barbarous form of bombing on 11 May 1940, with an attack on the helpless university town of Freiburg. He announced that he would stop at no type or extent of brutality and terrorism to crush Hitler and he made good his word. He directed the terrible incendiary bombing of Hamburg, and was solely responsible for ordering the needless destruction of the beautiful city of Dresden, the most ruthless, despicable and indefensible major atrocity of World War II, in which the losses of life and property were far greater than in the case of the American bombing of either Hiroshima or Nagasaki. He approved and ordered the application of the Lindemann Plan for the saturation bombing of Germany which, for stark brutality in both conception and operation, matched any of the alleged Nazi 'extermination' measures. This plan ordered concentration of British bombing on the homes of the poorer or working classes whose houses were huddled close together so that more innocent civilians could be killed per bomb that was dropped.”
From Barnes' essay, “Winston Spencer Churchill: A Tribute”
If that fails to induce apostasy from Winstonolatry, then I highly recommend Professor Ralph Raico’s “Rethinking Churchill,” which consists of the text (minus reference notes) of his contribution to the ever-timely The Costs of War (ed. John V. Denson).
There is an irrational mental state that impels those in it to intensify their embrace of policies that make them hated and get them killed. This suicidal tendency is often cloaked in a mystique that attaches to the names of foul war criminals like Franklin Roosevelt and Churchill and their epigones, Bush and Blair. Clearly, a society that cannot, or will not, overcome that tendency is doomed. “Resolved” perhaps, even happy-faced, but doomed.
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Friday July 8, 2005 at 11:17am