That's a spicy-a meatball!
Great job - some of the best reading I've stumbled over in while.
Some people absolutely should blog while inebriated.
Inspiring. The A.J.P. Taylor stuff was an eye-opener. Many people have argued, correctly, that the First World War was the great catasrophe that directly led to the most egregious forms of un-liberty: Nazism and Stalinism. What has been left out of the conventional "story" is the less extreme but still extensive effect The Great War had on "everyday" liberties in Great Britain and the United States.
Churchill had both good and bad effects on his country. (There's an understatement.) IIRC he actually supported some modest social insurance policies in the early 1900s, but, as Lord of the Admiralty, helped put Britain into the First World War when it wasn't striclty speaking necessary. The "Entente Cordiale" was non-binding.
I would argue the Korean war was worthwhile for the South Koreans.
Glad to see you back.
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