A recent program on TV Ontario focused on the career of the Right Honourable Gentleman Winston Churchill, during WW1. It mentioned as it could not fail to, his enormous cock-up at Gallipoli.
The significant thing is what it didn't say, which was that 30,000 young men died in the Right Honourable Gentleman's attempt to advance his career. This was something he was very open about during his early years in ''public service''.
Nor was it mentioned that Navy head Jack Fisher and war minister Kitchener told him it was a hare-brained scheme that would not work. ''Yet Churchill was an honourable man''.
Would it perhaps be better if we lived in a world where there were no great men, but instead a great society?
John Ayers.
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