
Fatal Flaws? Winston Churchill wasn’t Perfect. Surprise!
Awk! We’ve now read umpteen articles on Churchill’s Fatal Faults. They cite imagined flaws long disproven (poison gas, Bengal Famine, opposing all self-determination, hostility to Gandhi). One wonders: Don’t these writers ever do research?*
In rising crescendo since 2015 we’ve put up with a lot. Well, yes, some admit, Churchill saved the West—but he was human and he made mistakes (duh!). Why, he even said things that would shock us in our modern enlightened age. This age of beheadings, massacres, drone strikes and chlorine gas attacks is so removed from the bad old days of Pax Britannica.…