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Admin, when backed into a corner ,a ll you’ve got is ad hominem , but I do acknowledged it is your forte’

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I’ll read the fat puffy Lying , when you read how the Drunken Lying Baron led US into not one but two world wars

Churchill, Hitler, and “The Unnecessary War”: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World

Admins fearless self-promoting hero prepared to fight those dirty Huns. Never would he or the heroes of the logistically evacuation of Dunkirk ever throw down their arms.

I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire. – Winston Churchill …. yet that is exactly what the fat old drunk fool did.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1208032/Were-troops-cowards-Churchills-concern-lack-fighting-spirit.html

But the fact was that the fall of Singapore had left him angry and depressed. A force of 100,000 British soldiers had lain down their arms, despite outnumbering the Japanese invasion force four to one. ‘They should have done better,’ he lamented.

What use was it, that he himself displayed a warrior’s spirit before the world, if those who fought in Britain’s name showed themselves incapable of matching his rhetoric?

He was not alone in his poor opinion of Britain’s fighting men. The chief of the general staff, General Sir Alan Brooke, wrote in his diary: ‘If the Army cannot fight better than it is doing at the present, we shall deserve to lose our Empire.’

Nor was the judgment a new one. Back in 1941, following defeats in Greece, Crete and North Africa, Sir Alexander Cadogan of the Foreign Office wrote: ‘Our soldiers are the most pathetic amateurs, pitted against professionals. The Germans are magnificent fighters, veritable masters of warfare. We shall learn, but it will be a long and bloody business.’

A year had gone by since then and, with the fall of Singapore, Cadogan added: ‘Our Army is the mockery of the world!’
He was confident that America’s recent entry into the war would enable Britain to survive. But how could the nation hold up its head in the world, be seen to have made a worthy contribution to victory, if the British Army covered itself with shame whenever exposed to a battle?

Still the bad news did not abate. The island of Malta was under siege. Convoys to Russia were suffering shocking losses from German air and U-boat attack. Nowhere, it seemed, did the sun shine upon British endeavours.
British machine gunners in Malta, the main base of the nation’s Mediterranean fleet

Under siege: British machine gunners in Malta, the main base of the nation’s Mediterranean fleet

Alan Brooke found the prime minister ‘often in a very nasty mood these days’. Clementine wrote to a friend in the United States: ‘We are walking through the Valley of Humiliation.’

Mary, Churchill’s daughter, noted in her diary that her father was ‘saddened – appalled by events’. An editorial in the Spectator contrasted the present mood with 1940. ‘No one can pretend that we are living through our finest hour today.’

Private conclaves of MPs, editors, retired generals and admirals discussed Churchill in the most brutal terms. Some thought he was finished and it was only a matter of a few months before his government fell.

There were many in high places who voiced the opinion that, as one Tory MP put it, ‘we cannot possibly win the war with the present PM’. But, having said that, they never actually came up with a good alternative.

The bigger problem for Churchill was in the United States – the ally who had only just joined the war against Hitler but was crucial if victory was to be won. There, a perception was growing that Britain was too yellow to fight. This worried Churchill because he suspected it might be true.

I’ve seen no mention of this here previously, but I was wondering about the muslim pop. here in the us, specifically, Islam among the prison population. According to Wikipedia: “In addition to immigration, the state, federal and local prisons of the United States may be a contributor to the growth of Islam in the United States. J. Michael Waller claims that Muslim inmates comprise 17-20% of the prison population in New York, or roughly 350,000 inmates in 2003. He also claims that 80% of the prisoners who “find faith” while in prison convert to Islam.[1] These converted inmates are mostly African American, with a small but growing Hispanic minority.[2] Waller also asserts that many converts are radicalized by outside Islamist groups linked to terrorism, but other experts suggest that when radicalization does occur it has little to no connection with these outside interests.[3][4][5]”. So, not only is there a continuing influx of muslims into the US, but also a continuing proselytizing of those who will probably be released at some point. Gee I wonder who those people might “tribe-up” with?

more French cowards masquerading as American and English soldiers , I suspect.

Nearly 50,000 American and 100,000 British soldiers deserted from the armed forces during World War II. (The British were in the war much longer.) Some fell into the arms of French or Italian women. Some became black-market pirates. Many more simply broke under the strain of battle.

These men’s stories have rarely been told. During the war, newspapers largely abstained from writing about desertions. The topic was bad for morale and could be exploited by the enemy. In more recent decades the subject has been essentially taboo, as if to broach it would dent the halo around the Greatest Generation.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/10/books/the-deserters-a-world-war-ii-history-by-charles-glass.html?_r=0