Clint and von Poop, thanks for stepping in here. I agree that the original post has a hint of "bashing" in it. I wonder if Macker has another agenda at work. Having looked at a number of his other posts, I sense there is something else at work, but I don't know what it is.

Of course Churchill was flawed, and he probably harbored his share of prejudices about other leaders. That said, I can't imagine anyone else leading Britain during the war with the kind of tenacity and vision that he did. Was he single minded? Absolutely, single-minded in his desire to eliminate the Nazi threat to Britain and the rest of Europe. There is much to admire in the man, despite his flaws.

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