The British Art of Understatement
February 12th, 2003 - 4:31 pm
Reader Comment of the Day, from John Farren:
Call me a selfish Brit, but I like (liked?) having US Army divisions and BAOR (British Army of the Rhine) in Germany. Saves all that tedious Channel crossing stuff.
‘Nuff said.
This may be true, but isn’t all the tedious Channel crossing stuff more glorious?
Glorious, perhaps. But stand in Omaha Beach Cemetery(US), or Bayeux or Tyne Cot Cemetries(UK) and consider the price of glory. They are glorious, who are commemorated there, but I think they would prefer to have lived.
Or as an ex-WW2 tanker once said to me ‘bugger heroism, we just wanted to win and go home.’
And that the lesson is, to break evil men before the cost becomes so heart-rendingly high.
the drive from poland and czech republic (we need a better name than that, something punchier, one word ish) is quick (as the germans should be familiar with…)
and our planes have lots more reach… put a few carriers off nice, in the channel, we can handle everything no problem
Yeah, but now you have the “chunnel”. Just drop paratroops on the “far” end in France, establish a beachhead, and your troops take a train ride to the front. Much easier.