Whether you esteem him or despise him, and there are not many in the middle, the Lord Protector’s disdain for his physical superficials is a refreshing contrast to today’s pretty boy actors, metrosexuals and image-obsessed politicians of no substance.
Politically he was controversial but his military career was phenomenal. Even the Irish historian at Drogheda wrote of him as an “honorable enemy”. It is now seen that in Ireland Cromwell was not anti-Irish but anti-Royalist and the Irish war coalitions included Protestant and Catholic on both sides. It was an Irishman, Richard Harris, that played Cromwell sympathetically in the film CROMWELL.>
True, but still a misguided philosophy/creed. Whether it’s Protestants, Catholics, Muslims, Jews...conversion by the sword is a dodgy strategy.