This whole war has been a heap of lies. We came into the war because a few men in authority , 'the dreamers', flung us into it. they could not accept that you don't do politics by dreaming. Politics is reality. You don't stake the future of a nation on a dream, a yearning for reinvigoration. It is idiotic to imagine that war can be a means of healing.Colonel Angelo Gatti writing in 1917 on Italy's decision to enter the First World War. From The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1919 by Mark Thomson.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
The More Things Stay the Same
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See, I told you I'd read it. Glad we've learned a lot since 1917. Ahem.
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