Monday, April 8, 2013

4/8-IT WASN'T THAT THE WAR TOOK BRITAIN TOO FAR DOWN. IT WAS THAT THE POST-WAR TOOK BRITAIN TOO FAR LEFT!



Some call it the "take-home".  Others call it the "take-away".  Same thing.  It means what you learned and retained from the class, the lecture, the video, etc.  Barry, as avid a scholar of World War II and beyond as he can arrange to get, is grateful to Charles Krauthammer of Fox News (again!) for pointing something out on this day the world lost former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher that Barry always had wrong.  Barry always assumed Britain declined after that war because Britain had stood alone against Nazi might and borne the brutal brunt of the air blitz and was exhausted in victory.  Wrong!  Britain declined because of British socialism, not military exhaustion.  If that, and no other point is made, Barry will write "Mission Accomplished" on this evening's broadcast!


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