Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Tina wrote in news:3187509d-daec-48d6-9db7-
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Bertie, you clearly have studied Sir Winston, in that you read between
his lines accurately.
But still, his insulting conventions are worth following because they
amuse the reader.
Yeah, he was a fun guy. Just ask the antipodeans he got slaughtered at
Gallipoli,
Actually, Kitchener was the one who had ordered the attack on Gallipoli,
and the one who was most responsible for arguing against an evacuation once
the attack bogged down. Yes, Churchill did fight against an evacuation too,
but by that time the decision was an army one, not navy. For that matter,
Kitchener was the one who sent the navy on its own to attack the
Dardanelles. And the local commanders, Carden and then de Robeck, who
showed remarkable lack of backbone. But there were many hands involved in
creation of such a disaster.
Who did what is covered in painstaking detail in David Fromkin's book "A
Peace to End All Peace - The fall of the Ottoman Empire and the creation of
the modern Middle East"
All that said, Churchill's WWI actions do appear to have been those of an
amoral pompous ass. But I think that made him one with the crowd in power
at the time - he didn't appear to be any different in these characteristics
than many of his peers.