Germany started the Great War, but the Left can’t bear to say so

UK Daily Telegraph ^ | January 6, 2014 | Boris Johnson

[C19fan]

One of the reasons I am a Conservative is that, in the end, I just can’t stand the intellectual dishonesty of the Left. In my late teens I found I had come to hate the way Lefties always seemed to be trying to cover up embarrassing facts about human nature, or to refuse to express simple truths – and I disliked the pious way in which they took offence, and tried to shoosh you into silence, if you blurted such a truth. Let me give you a current example of this type of proposition. It is a sad but undeniable fact that the First World War – in all its murderous horror – was overwhelmingly the result of German expansionism and aggression. That is a truism that has recently been restated by Max Hastings, in an excellent book, and that has been echoed by Michael Gove, the Education Secretary. I believe that analysis to be basically correct, and that it is all the more important, in this centenary year, that we remember it.

[Ravnagora]

Thank you for posting this, “C19fan”.

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[Ravnagora]

Brilliantly said, “agere_contra”.

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[Fiji Hill]

Ok, 1.5 hours on thread. I had better get back to work.

Later guys.

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