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MosheFeingold

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14. Some of the best leaders

Reply to riverine (Original post)

Mon Feb 18, 2019, 01:48 PM

Feb 2019

Are also total assholes.

Some of the nicest people are crappy leaders.

Talking WWII, Patton was a flaming asshole. He also could get troops rallied up and and do things way beyond what mortals could do.

Churchill was no different.

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The Rest of Us Always Knew Churchill Was a Villain [View all] riverine Feb 2019 OP

History is ALSO filled with books written by the winners. Ferrets are Cool Feb 2019 #1

w/out churchill Leo Amery might have died in the camps with all of england speaking german nt msongs Feb 2019 #2

Quite possibly true. riverine Feb 2019 #3

Sounds a lot like Kipling's "White man's burden" TrogL Feb 2019 #4

He was neither all good nor all bad. Not angel, and not villain. Honeycombe8 Feb 2019 #5

And the people shadowmayor Feb 2019 #6

Highly suggest watching Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States Hestia Feb 2019 #10

Ought to check your numbers in British deaths in WWII captain queeg Feb 2019 #12

UK military deaths were close to 400,000. DavidDvorkin Feb 2019 #13

I would have guessed even more captain queeg Feb 2019 #15

I'm alive because of him DavidDvorkin Feb 2019 #7

If there's one thing I cannot tolerate Haggis for Breakfast Feb 2019 #8

And I doubt shadowmayor Feb 2019 #9

I was born in Liverpool, England. Scarsdale Feb 2019 #11

Some of the best leaders MosheFeingold Feb 2019 #14