Gary Brecher's latest column.

[A_V_8_R]

http://www.exile.ru/2006-December-15/war_nerd.html

Thought it was an interesting take.

[Acid Bath]

I would like to know what his definition of fascism is, after reading the entire article I found myself arguing with many of his examples, and even I do not know too much about WWII history.


There's another inconvenient fact about Churchill: he was a fascist too, every bit as much as Hitler

I don't understand how he came to this conclusion as well, although I will try not to be to naive. I can say that Churchill was probably a racist by modern standards, However I do not see how the author can come to this conclusion. Although he may have had some horrible policies towards other races, did he ever base his political ideology on the concept that he needed to wipe other races off the map?

I do not kow much about European history so if someone can explain this article to me please do.

[Breakfast in Vegas]

I usually like his columns, but thought that was one of the worst. Sounds more like his editors put him up to it...

[Cpt. Spaulding]

pure bull****

[Noble713]

Churchill's one and only reason for fighting Hitler was that he didn't want Germany challenging England for world domination. In 1936, Churchill told a British general, "Germany is getting too strong; we must smash her." That was his only objection to the Nazis. No way he could have minded their brutality, because Churchill was always in favor of violence against anybody who opposed British interests. Long before the war, he supported using concentration camps for the Boer women and kids, strafing Indian villages--and here's his enlightened democratic quote on how to deal with the Iraqi Kurds, everybody's favorite persecuted minority, from a 1919 memo: "I am strongly in favour of using poisoned [sic] gas against uncivilized tribes."


What made the Holocaust totally unlike most genocides is that we remember the victims; and the only reason we do is, once again, the USA. The European Jews were totally vulnerable and despised over there, but their kin in America were doing fine and cared enough to remember their relatives who died. Compare this to almost any other example of genocide, and there are literally thousands of examples, and you'll see the difference: most of the time (I mean DUH!) the tribe that gets genocided is the most despised, weak and helpless tribe in the region. That means nobody remembers them at all, or if they do they consider the genocide an example of Progress, or just one of those things. If you doubt that, then tell me quick what tribe lived 400 years ago in the city where you're reading this now. I still, after years of trying to find out, don't know what tribe lived around Fresno. Nobody even mentions them on the web--that's how most genocides work. The tribe vanishes forever. That's why they call it genocide, for God's sake! And once it's gone--Duh!--nobody remembers it or cares.

The reason people love to talk about Nazis killing Jews is that, thanks to the Jews in America, there were people who insisted on remembering the victims. If people thought about the genocide of, say, the tribe that lived where you lived, they'd get bummed. They'd realize the world is a slaughterhouse and there are no moral lessons. That's why they'd rather talk about Auschwitz than...Fresno.

rofl These are real gems, but this:


Now that is a real depressing lesson for all military buffs, and one that took me years to accept, but we have to face it. If military superiority settled things, the Germans and Japanese would have won because they were by far, and I mean by FAR, the best soldiers.

...is hogwash. If Japanese soldiers were so great they would have inflicted disproportionate losses on the US instead of taking heavier casualties in every battle except Iwo Jima, where they possessed massive fortifications and still barely eeked out a "body count" score in their favor.

[Connaught Ranger]

"I read this one review that said every citizen ought to go pay to sit through it even if it is a bad movie, like it's some kind of patriotic duty for me to put $25 in Clint Eastwood's offshore account. (And yeah, I know movies don't cost $25 but I can't sit down in a darkened room unless I've got a Humpback-size diet coke in one hand, a Maxi-tub popcorn in the other, and a spare clip of Milk Duds in my ammo pocket.)"

Looking at his picture its easy to believe all he does is stuff is fat-face on Fascists Fast Food, the amount of crap he spews out is then equal from his two a*@! holes.

Connaught Ranger.

[fantomas]

this Bechter guys is hit or miss. Some of his columns on Hezbolla and Russian weapons are dead on, and definitely interesting, others like this one are just a verbal diarhea

[Alan]

I hope you people do know that Brecher is a fictional persona. The picture is actually of some singer I think.

The articles could be written by more than one person. The current standing theory is that Brecher is Dolan.

[Ghelp]

Fact No3: There Are NO Military Lessons to Be Learned from WW II


I began laughing in tears and stopped reading here.

[Mastermind]

Reads like a 14 year old kid wrote it, whose dad is a rambling nazi-commie-fascist-anarchist weed smoking, hippie alcholoic. MM