I consider that faulting the children for the crimes or failures of the fathers is a form of racism so it was natural to counter Mr Bubblehead. Notice that this also applies to French bashing Americans (for many of them their ancestors were still in Europe) their XIXth century history and feigning to give a hoot about Indians or Blacks.
About De Gaulle, if you read his book about the war you will notice that the part about doing something against the Germans is about 10 pages long and the part about being a pain in the a.. to the Allies is 490 pages long. Also keeping in mind that it was Soviet Union’s backstabbing of Poland who made 1940 possible and French Communist Party’s action of defeatist propaganda, sabotaging of tanks and delaying aircraft production then de Gaulle’s shadowy delings with the communists and Stalin appear as selling his soul for grabbing power.
Notice that I consider FDR a first-class bastard too with his dreams about remaking Europe’s map, his concessions to Stalin, making a recession into a depression and leading America on a collision course against Geramany and Japan while letting US Armed fores wither on the vine leading to many unnecessary American deaths when through inferior planes, tanks and torpedoes who didn’t explode.
Lawrence’s vision of Greater Arabia was limited to Middle East. Saddam’s one reached the Atlantic.
