Why the NR Crowd Loves Churchill
April 12, 2004
When the Iraqis first started revolting against British imperialism in 1923, Winston Churchill recommended that they be dealt with with poison gas. He (and the world) had just seen the horrific consequences of poison gas in World War I, and thought it was just the ticket for the Iraqi population.
My friend Ron Smith, a talk show host on WBAL in Baltimore, mentioned on the air today that in the past day or two William F. Buckley, Jr. invoked Churchill in advocating that the U.S. military gas entire cities where the revolts are currently taking place. This is certainly one reason why the neocons love Churchill so much. Their defintion of a “great statesman” is apparently one who is willing to kill innocient civilians by the thousands. Needless to say, that’s also why they idolize Lincoln so much as well.
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