Evil

Winston Churchill was a hero for just about everyone I knew that when I was a kid in world war Two. Alas! Never was there a hero who was less heroic. (And never were the Americans so evil. This is the story that never made the news.) Churchill was born into a palace. It was perhaps the most splendid palace of all the British aristocracy.But his parents were rarely home. They were busily having sexual affairs. Oh, there were children whose parents worked on the Churchill estate. But they were commoners. Churchill was trained from childhool to have nothing but contempt for ordinary people. So he spent his days indoors with a nurse overlooking him. (ordinary children in those days in Britain didn't go to school. Indeed, in later years, Churchill and other aristocrats were fiercely opposed to schooling for ordinary paople. They were simply trash. In 1914, Churchill joined the British army, insisting on a position as Colonel, a position for which he had no qualifications whatever. But that was common for the British military in 1914. It was common all the way up to Field Marshall. Aristocratic twits were the rule.Significantly, the best general on the British side but commanding Canadian troops was a Canadian, Sir Arthur Currie. Indeed, he was quite possibly the best commanding officer on either side.Too bad Canadians have never learned more about him. At the end of the war, Churchill enjoyed his assignment to bully and murder Chinese by the million, something the British had been doing for at least 200 years. Then he was assigned to cover neighbouring British colonies. He happily cut off the food supply of some six million people who starved to death. Churchill returned to Britain in time for an early wartime election. And for reasons not clear he won it.And that was a big mistake. performance in the war was marked by Churchill's speeches, but not by much military success. In fact, the major nation in that was Russia, and the most successful leader was Stalin. (The largest part of the American war was stealing British colonies in the Pacific and planning (successfully) to steal Britain's oil fields in Africa.) The other mark of Churchill's "leadership" was the constant delivery of huge quantities of liquor. He was drunk for most of the war. That's when he made the big mistake of assuming the American president Roosevelt was his friend. Far from it, very far, and even as they met, the U.S. had decided that the U.S. would conquer and rule the whole world, every inch of it, including Britain, as soon as the war was over. (That's why the U.S. calls on Canada to fight American wars - as it still does.) Too bad the Canadian Legion has never had the brains to see that. Toward the end of the war, Britain realized that it's leader was a drunken lout. And there was an election looming. The British had no enthusiasm for a prime minister who was a drunken lout. They voted for the Labour party. Churchill would spend the rest of his life painting. I saw him doing it once. It was good.