I guess this guy doesn't seem to remember (or acknowledge) the DESPERATION people felt in fighting that war.
Leave it to a British guy to reflect on mistakes in WW2.
A British guy who, if not for America, would be speaking German... TWICE
The author is only passing along information from the above source, so don't blame the messanger.
That said, the fact is we were at war for our very existance. Mistakes were made and I doubt that Capt. Burrell could have done any better. Hindsight is always 20/20.
I don't think Max Boot is a Brit; this article just happened to appear in the Manchester Union Leader. Max is actually a well-regarded reporter, and frequently writes for the op-ed page of the WSJ. In this article, I think what he's really saying is that better intelligence would have led to less loss of life. Or had we had better intelligence, we could have carpet bombed Iwo before taking it.
Leave it to a British guy to reflect on mistakes in WW2
Yeah I wonder if he remembers the Arnheim Bridge. Now if he wants to write about a "mistake", he should write about that one. It was after all, entirely British
This guy appears to be an American. The Manchester Union Leader is a famous conservative paper in New Hampshire.
My thoughts exactly. Just another Brit putting the U.S. down.
I wonder what he has to say about Britain's utter and complete debacle at Dieppe in 1942. Hmmmmm?
I'll bet this guy won't write about the European mistakes of appeasement that emboldened the nazis. Iwo Jima is sacred American history and revising the reasons why we fought that battle 60 years later is an insult to the magnificent men who fought there. I know I would not want to be the man making life and death decisions in a conflict of the scale of WWII. Every decision was an agonizing decision.