Quote for the day

"...there is no evil worse than submitting to wrong and violence for fear of war. Once you take the position of not being able, in any circumstance, to defend your rights against the aggression of some particular set of people, there is no end to the demands that will be made upon you or to the humiliations that must be accepted."

from a letter Winston Churchill wrote in 1929

One of my moral, literary, and historical heroes, Churchill would have been at the forefront of the Thousand Year War...

His biographer also notes in the same post that "some sixteen years before he wrote these words, Churchill advocated the establishment of a National Home for the Kurdish people in Northern Iraq. In a Cabinet minute, which I quote in the book, he wrote that his fear was that a future ruler of Iraq will ignore Kurdish sentiment and oppress the Kurdish minority. The experts rejected this, insisting that Britain would always be able to exercise a moderating influence on Baghdad."

The British, for all their experience, were so clueless about the 'wogs'. Unfortunately, we listen to the same 'experts'...