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To: marcos who wrote (122159)	12/26/2003 7:02:15 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) of 281500

marcos.. Anyone who reads Churchill's biography understands that he was a man of many contrasts, as well as someone who's political and social ideas moderated over time (as well as through his shifting of political sides in parliament). The man was not intellectually infallible.. having been on the wrong side of many issues and events (Ghandhi being one of those, Gallipoli being another one).. He was, at heart, an imperialist, who believed that Britain had brought civilization to the undeveloped regions of the world and it was her duty to look out for them (as well as extract her vital resources from them).. He was a man of his times and someone who could, in some instances, change as those times required. But like most of us, in some instances he resisted change. But most of all, he had a keen understanding of the nature of power and totalitarian regimes. And he was most prescient with regard to the dangers Hitler, and later Stalin, posed to Europe and the rest of the world. And as Nadine mentioned, he was also one of the best allies the Jews had when it came to obtaining their own homeland. Hawk

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