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1. 1 day ago on Doonesbury

   Hey!! You’ll be old and fat and bald and stupid if you’re lucky and if you keep reading the right kind of comments. How do I know? Well………

2. 2 days ago on Doonesbury

   Yes, why can’t you harp on his “virtues” for once? Here, I’ll make a list for you………………………………………….

   umm………………………

3. 3 days ago on Doonesbury

   Let’s all brush up our Shakespeare as well.

4. 3 days ago on Doonesbury

   Well, come on you Rainbow muppets, whadda we waitin’ for?

5. 3 days ago on Doonesbury

   “Be careful not to touch the wall, there’s a brand-new coat of paint

   I’m glad to see you’re still alive, you’re lookin’ like a saint.”

6. 3 days ago on Doonesbury

   But your attitude is apparently “We should all just turn and look the other way la la la la la la.”

   My attitude is that we should do sensible things that might have some hope of success — unlike Britain’s 1930s policy of guaranteeing Belgium and telling Poland, “Go on, stand up and fight, we’re right behind you!” while knowing that Poland was a lost cause that Britain could do nothing for.

   Hitler had his way in Poland when he and the USSR attacked. Britain’s diplomacy and military might did nothing to help Poland 1939-1989, and may have made things worse in 1939 by encouraging Poland to fight a hopeless war that brought millions of deaths and the destructive partition.

   “…(according to you), all the Jews in Poland would’ve lived long, happy lives under the benevolent tutelage of their beloved führer,…”

   Those are your words, made up by you and falsely imputed to me. I said nothing like that. You cannot find any of those words or any such suggestion in my posts.

   I set out some rational and reasonable policies for containing Hitler’s aggression in 1938 and 1939 and preparing for long-term resistance to Nazi Germany; all of those ideas were discussed in public and in the British Cabinet at the time. You have discussed none of them but resorted to emotion and ad hominem attack.

7. 4 days ago on Doonesbury

   Thank you. I’m very impressed by your grasp of history, strategy, causality and sneezing.

   What I tell you three times is true.

8. 4 days ago on Doonesbury

   After the heroics of the Phony War and the 1940 Blitzkrieg and Dunkirk, Europe was owned by Nazi Germany, and half of Poland was in the hands of the USSR allied with Germany. Nazism, tyranny, mass murder and imperial conquest were everywhere raking up their piles of slaughtered innocents, despite the poorly managed, uncoordinated Polish, French and British military resistance.

   Now suppose that, instead of trying to break Continental windows with handfuls of guineas, Britain in 1938-9 had made an organised military pact with France, garrisoned the German border properly, told Belgium to do likewise or fend for itself, told Poland to make a defence pact with USSR or surrender to a German invasion or fend for itself, and Britain and France had made a credible anti-Nazi defence pact with the USSR?

   Hitler, in that case, would have had nowhere much to go in his quest for lebensraum, and millions of people would have lived on in their unbombed, unburnt cities.

   The Channel ports would have been secure for French-British use, the nascent Kriegsmarine could have been bottled up in North Sea ports, the U-boats would not have enjoyed their bombproof French Atlantic bases on the Western Approaches and across the supply lines from the USA.

   We could have had 20-40 years of (largely peaceful) Cold War from 1940 onwards while the Anglo-French Alliance prepared Fortress Western Europe as the anvil for the USSR hammer — if it was ever launched against the Third Reich, which could anyway have been blockaded and isolated while the Nazi hierarchy killed Hitler and split Germany into hell-bent gangster mini-states.

   What’s wrong with that, compared to what actually happened to the Low Countries, Norway, half of France, Yugoslavia, Greece, Albania and half of the USSR? Oh, yes, we wouldn’t have had the years of fruitless slaughter that we actually saw in 1940-45.

9. 4 days ago on Doonesbury

   Yes, very cogent. Let’s have a lot more of this personalised emotionalism in place of thinking….and oblige me by pointing out exactly where and how I defended, promoted or rationalised Nazism, tyranny, murder etc.

10. 4 days ago on Doonesbury

    Following you very closely, Commander.