LJ, SUP, Mr Nosik, and other contemptible little sods.

[wemyss]

In the early days of November 1918, the American general, Pershing, opposed the Allies’s decision to accede to the German request for an armistice.  He warned, ‘They don’t know they’re licked.  Give me another month’: in which he intended to make their defeat clear to them in such a fashion as to preclude any revisionism.

As we know, his warning

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Yes.

[wemyss]

Charming little bastard, isn't he.

Oh, quite. Vy wise.

[wemyss]

And I refuse to leave. Last stand and All That.

[tree_and_leaf]

In fact, I wouldn't have been posting on Good Friday anyway, as I shan't be anywhere near a computer, which rather undermines my abstinence. Could indeed have been better chosen.

Precisely.

[wemyss]

I refrain by main force from making any of the myriad possible liturgical quips.

Quite so.

[wemyss]

On both counts.

[fpb]

Hear BLOODY hear with a cherry on top. And a Happy Easter to you, sir - political and national differences notwithstanding. There still is all the difference in the world between a free man and a born slave.

We'll not discuss cherries, I think.

[wemyss]

And a happy Easter to you as well - not blinking our disputes, but rising above them.

[rakugan]

Simply this.

[wemyss]

The Axis powers, once defeated, were subjected to de-Nazification or its local equivalent, the trials at Nuremb'g and Sugamo, and all that that implies. The end of apartheid South Africa saw both reconciliation commissions and truth-and-justice commissions. Countries that have languished under tyrannies tend to develop certain modes of thought and behaviour that want cleansing, a readjustment of attitude, and that cleansing as a rule comes from confronting the past, including the attitudes and folkways that have been warped by the past. This has happened in many countries of the former Warsaw Pact; it has not happened to anything like the necessary extent in the CIS. The result, I submit, is that attitudes and practises that grew up under the distorting pressure of the former regime persist, and are evident in the approach of the new oligarchs.

[rakugan]

Er.

[wemyss]

Well. Ah.

That's rather a conversation stopper, isn't it.

Is this something you care at all to take up, or shall we just give it a miss? Better still, is this irony that I am not seeing?