Almost every page of this book is painful to read, because to be invited to admire these virtues of the English-speaking world is to recognise the sheer magnitude and irreplaceability of what we have lost. These virtues, which enabled the English-speaking world to triumph over the despotisms of German nationalism, fascism, and communism and brought down tyrannies over four continents, belong to a culture that has now simply vanished. What Roberts drives home over and over again is that, far from being the monstrous neo-con warmongering invention that it is currently made out to be, liberating foreign lands from tyranny was an instinct programmed into the English-speaking peoples because it arose out of the nobility of the human spirit embodied in their cultures."
Melanie Phillips on the UK sailor hostage debacle.
Go and read what she has to say--especially this part of her post:
"....Terence Edward Waters was awarded the George Cross posthumously for fortitude as a PoW. Now read again what the Royal Navy 15 did and said, and what their superior officers did and said; and weep for Britain."
(bold mine)
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