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Old March 21st, 2008, 08:41 PM
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Default Re: A darker view of 'hero' Churchill

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Originally Posted by Ironcross View Post
Wrong. Hitler never wanted a war with the Brits.
No, he just wanted war with just about everyone else, especially those he thought were inferior to him. Doesn't this line of reasoning go against the supposed egalitarian teachings of Herr Marx that you seem to espouse?

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I know what happened. So why didn't Churchill even try to negotiate peace?
I am absolutely flabbergasted by this question.

He was negotiating. To borrow from Clausewitz, the UK was engaged in a "continuation of policy by other means", in this case war against an angressor with strong, recent history of occupying weaker nations.
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