War links

[erudito]

Obituary for an amazing Italian cavalry officer who led the last cavalry charge faced by the British army.

About faulty analysis from inadequate WWII statistics, using tanks and capital ships as examples.

A new book on the Eastern Front argues Stalin won because Hitler underestimated Stalin’s willingness to spend lives:
Wars have a chilling

Comments

[jordan179]

The war in the Congo has claimed perhaps 5m lives (something largely ignored by “compassionate” Western intellectuals, who would prefer to go on and on about the evils of the Jewish state).

This, and similar instances (some from the Mideast itself) show that the Western intellectuals are less "compassionate" than they have hatred for certain Powers (particularly Israel, as this lets them either get away with anti-Semitism or attempt to appease anti-Semites). They are looking for narratives in which a group of "oppressors" whom they don't like at home are oppressing "victims" whom they either do like or pretend they like to be Politically Correct. The Congo War doesn't fit this model because from the Western intellectual POV it's just "black-on-black" violence. (Of course, to the various factions which killed each other in that war, the differences were readily apparent, but then Western intellectuals have no real respect for the Congolese as actual human beings, and indeed implicitly deny that they have any independent ideologies

[marycatelli]

Hatred of the West is the better explanation for them, when you factor in that many of them also supported Communism. The alternative is that they just like mass-murdering dictatorships.

[marycatelli]

You don't believe that jihadi do you? He's spouting the meant-for-the-West line.

In reality, they will stop when the world is under sharia and we're all paying the tax as dhimmi.

[jordan179]

In reality, they will stop when the world is under sharia and we're all paying the tax as dhimmi.

Not even then -- they'll fall to fighting over who has the true path of Islam, and we'll die in the crossfire.

Jihadi

[erudito]

Not as a complete explanation, no. After all, there is the small question of why the 9/11 attacks in the first place.