Posted on 10/08/2018 8:58:32 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Scott Kelly is a NASA astronaut. That says a lot about him right there. To be selected as an astronaut, you must be the best of the best – smart, fearless, and psychologically sound.
So why does Kelly sound like an idiot here?
Scott Kelly, a retired American astronaut with multiple space flights under his belt, apologized Sunday after quoting Winston Churchill and calling the 20th century British prime minister "one of the greatest leaders of modern times."
"Did not mean to offend by quoting Churchill. My apologies. I will go and educate myself further on his atrocities, racist views which I do not support. My point was we need to come together as one nation. We are all Americans. That should transcend partisan politics," Kelly wrote on Twitter in the evening.
Right the first time, Scotty. In 1940, Churchill took a battered, beaten nation after the British army was kicked out of France and rallied his people to resist the Nazi onslaught. Certainly, Hitler helped a lot by making several key blunders. But as a demonstration of peerless leadership, there are few modern examples to match Churchill.
So calling Churchill "one of the greatest leaders of modern times" is a no-brainer. It is a statement supported by history and the facts.
Yossi Gestetner tried to give Kelly a spine:
You are disgracing yourself here. Please stop bending to the will of deranged online trolls.— Yossi Gestetner (@YossiGestetner) October 7, 2018
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Bullshit, and I am a big Churchill fan.
He's a former test pilot and has flown 40 different aircraft including all models of the F-14 and F-18.
Explain how he lacks the 'Right Stuff'.
People change. Kelly has changed. He now lacks the intellectual courage to stand for Truth and face ridicule.
As I said in the beginning (or alluded to), he may have made the grade before, but those days are apparently over.
There are many Indian Americans in technical circles that Kelly is in that would educate him about what Churchill actually did in India.
Deliberately starved millions to death.
Perhaps more accurately that, which I submit in the post that prompted your response, is what he has become.
What I said didn’t exclude more.
As for the virtue of being emotionally stable and able to find solutions in hard situations, if, out of the cockpit, your ideology helps you arrive at the wrong solutions I’d rather you ‘when in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.”
The right stuff in the service of the wrong ideas is a bad combination.
I honestly doubt that there was ever a big change inside people like this. It just proves that being a man is not all about going through man motions. Some real tough guys are not big men inside. They are truly the lowest form of human life and they are everywhere.
Would he apologize if he praised Stalin?
British administrators confiscated the rice harvest and shipping. It was murder, not triage.
The Bengal area was the center of Indian Nationalism and the war served as a cover for genocide.
And then Churchill diverted any relief shipments.
I think he took one too many cosmic rays to the head! /s;)
The WRONG Stuff!
Just shows that Gabby’s astronaut husband isn’t an anomaly ... being an astronaut is zero gauge of anything except being brave enough to go into space with an explosion at your butt.
Can’t beat what Yossi said!
“The Bengal Famine of 1943 was deliberately caused by Churchill and killed millions.”
That is a ridiculous statement and exhibits not only ignorance but blatant stupidity.
Churchill did not deliberately or otherwise “cause the famine.” Famine conditions occurred with or without Churchill. Had he sent what limited rations that could be spared would have saved some lives however starving people elsewhere would have suffered as a result and likely not significant numbers in India would have been saved.
When you are at war and your entire existence is in jeopardy, tough decisions have to be made. Invariably when choices of aid are made, some benefit and others suffer. War is after all a zero sum game.
Indian Nationalist were siding with the Japanese and if the Japs advanced into that territory any Indian who weren’t “friendly” with them would get the Nanking Treatment” They probably still would have pillage as Japan was sending all resources back to the homeland to aid in their war effort
The British enacted a “scorched earth” tactic common in retreating armies. Deny your enemy any resources that can aid their fight against you. Russians did in WWII, Germans dis it. Americans did it in the Civil War in Sherman’s March to the Sea.
Bad things happen in war. Making politics out of tragedy 70 years after the fact is leftist tactic to divide, not good reading of history.
Don’t let yourself be used as a leftist tool.
Not even 20 years later, you have to apologize if you quote him? (And he is so quotable.)
One of his best:
Lady Astor: “If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee!”
Winston Churchill: “And if I were your husband I would drink it.”
LOL! Yes, that is one of my favorites.
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