http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/05/links-51108.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:09:47 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/05/links-51108.html#comment-7880 dearieme Sun, 11 May 2008 17:16:00 +0000 http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/05/links-51108/#comment-7880 I'm no Churchill-worshipper, but I object to this: "..the war cabinet was discussing the merits of poison gas (whose use against "uncivilised tribes" in Iraq Churchill had defended in 1920)". What Churchill and others called "poison gas" in the 20s is what we now call tear gas. I suspect that the meaning of the phrase was changed for ever by Nazi practice. Any writer who doesn't tell his readers this is a very naughty boy. As for the end of the Western Empires: well, that was FDR's ambition. He didn't mind the Russian Empire, though. It has occurred to me that it was ship-borne Empires that he objected to, rather than horse-borne, for obvious reasons. I’m no Churchill-worshipper, but I object to this: “..the war cabinet was discussing the merits of poison gas (whose use against “uncivilised tribes” in Iraq Churchill had defended in 1920)”. What Churchill and others called “poison gas” in the 20s is what we now call tear gas. I suspect that the meaning of the phrase was changed for ever by Nazi practice. Any writer who doesn’t tell his readers this is a very naughty boy. As for the end of the Western Empires: well, that was FDR’s ambition. He didn’t mind the Russian Empire, though. It has occurred to me that it was ship-borne Empires that he objected to, rather than horse-borne, for obvious reasons.

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