Who were these wretched 'people' were suggesting we apologise for finishing off the Corsican Ogre in 1815, to the general relief and rejoicing of all Europe?
Rather, if we are going down that road, we should apologise for saving the bloody French and the bogus Belgian state (a chunk of pillaged Dutch territory, run by a Francophone elite who denied the Flemish majority even official status for their own language until after WW1; a state whose main 'achievement' in less than a century of existence had been to become the most callous and bloodthirsty of all European colonial powers) from their richly deserved humiliation in the First World War (thereby extending the war into a four-year bloodbath of millions that laid waste to civilisation across a whole continent, and gave birth to the Soviet Union, the Second World War and other epic horrors); or indeed for siding with the French and the obscene genocidal Turks in the Crimean War.
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Date: 2009-09-04 12:30 pm (UTC)Rather, if we are going down that road, we should apologise for saving the bloody French and the bogus Belgian state (a chunk of pillaged Dutch territory, run by a Francophone elite who denied the Flemish majority even official status for their own language until after WW1; a state whose main 'achievement' in less than a century of existence had been to become the most callous and bloodthirsty of all European colonial powers) from their richly deserved humiliation in the First World War (thereby extending the war into a four-year bloodbath of millions that laid waste to civilisation across a whole continent, and gave birth to the Soviet Union, the Second World War and other epic horrors); or indeed for siding with the French and the obscene genocidal Turks in the Crimean War.
Ah, that's better. And breathe...