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CCIP · 01-24-06, 04:54 PM

Personally, I've always been a fan of Churchill's public image. A real leader, to be sure.

But there was a compellingly interesting argument about him that I've heard from a professor of mine last year - which is essentially that from a purely 'real-political' perspective, Churchill is to a large part to blame for the loss of British dominance in world affairs subsequent to WWII - because by refusing to make a deal with Hitler in 1940, he had doomed the British Empire to a five-year committment which it really could not afford and for which it had basically paid with its empire. In other words, although Churchill acted with a tremendous benefit to the free world - he did so contrary to the interest of his own nation.

An interesting view, if anything. Perhaps somewhat stretched, but still :hmm:

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CCIP Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Canada Posts: 8,700 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 2	Personally, I've always been a fan of Churchill's public image. A real leader, to be sure. But there was a compellingly interesting argument about him that I've heard from a professor of mine last year - which is essentially that from a purely 'real-political' perspective, Churchill is to a large part to blame for the loss of British dominance in world affairs subsequent to WWII - because by refusing to make a deal with Hitler in 1940, he had doomed the British Empire to a five-year committment which it really could not afford and for which it had basically paid with its empire. In other words, although Churchill acted with a tremendous benefit to the free world - he did so contrary to the interest of his own nation. An interesting view, if anything. Perhaps somewhat stretched, but still :hmm: __________________ There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers. -Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart)