(March 24, 2015 at 1:32 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote:(March 24, 2015 at 1:08 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: Ah Winston Churchill. The foreign minister came to see him and Churchill was informed of this while he was sat on the toilet. Churchill told his secretary to tell the foreign minister to come back later as he "could only deal with one shit at a time".
They don't make them like that any more.
And on the other hand, when Churchill was visiting the White House shortly after Pearl Harbor, FDR entered into Churchill's quarters when the latter was fully nude. FDR Immediately apologized and made to leave, where upon Churchill said, "I have nothing to hide from the President of the United States."
While Churchill deserve considerable credit for keeping Great Britain fighting during WWI, his own total unscrupulousness, conceit, and a somewhat concealed but brutal sense of racism certainly makes it difficult to regard him as any sort of hero. The death toll from of callous and vindictively racist policies he followed in the aftermath h of the great Indian femine of 1943, which were swept under the rug in post war accounts, would rank him as one of the great butchers of 20th century. Not quite on the same scale as hitler, stalin and Mao, but certainly just one class below and way ahead of pol pot and other small to mid scale killers.
One could argue even the credit he deserve for keeping britain fighting and thus ultimately emerging on the winning side in WWII is seriously offset by the fact that his own antics in WWI contributed a great deal to the profligate squandering of britain's wealth and resources, lengtheneded of the war, and serious wrong footing of Britain in being able to deal with any serious threat to her after WWI in the first place.
