The death and destruction unleashed by the Second World War was unparalleled. Those men and women who gave their lives might have written great books, discovered cures for disease, or, more likely, simply have lived out their days in peace in their native land. They lost the chance for a full life because of forces beyond their control, beyond their country's control -- forces most of them comprehended only dimly.
- J. L. Granatstein and Desmond Morton in A Nation Forged in Fire.
2 comments:
What specious nonsense. FDR and Mackenzie King as incompetent? Can you in any way back that up with fact, or is this just some normal right-wing throw-out-an-allegation-that-liberals-are-incompetent-ignoring-how-useless-right-wing-governments-have-been? And what--we can compare sacrifice in war to abortion? You know what? We can compare sacrifice in war to that vegetarian lasagne I made last week, too.
Do you people on the right have some website where you pick up the day's conspiracy theory? It's hard to refute outright nonsense. Go brush up on your Second World War history and get back to us.
And the abortion argument on lost potential is silly. If you want to say that, then anyone who is killed in any way before reaching his or her "potential" is included in your analogy.
But seriously. Fact and conspiracy are different things.
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