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2018-06-21 Europe

I Think They Get It Now, Part Four: The UK.

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Posted by Herb McCoy 2018-06-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 The anecdotal Story is that Eisenhower really grew to hate the British officers during WW II . He Considered them self inflated snobs. When he became President and he had the opportunity to stick it too them, he didn't hold back.

Posted by Bugs Thud4877 2018-06-21 06:09|| 2018-06-21 06:09|| Front Page Top

#2 ...I don't think it was so much that Ike hated his British counterparts (there's lots of evidence, anecdotal and on the record, to the contrary, although he never really did like Montgomery much at all) as much as he understood that behind everything they did was the need to preserve the Empire and all it stood for. He was always willing to work with the UK - but he always took a very close look at their motives.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2018-06-21 07:24|| 2018-06-21 07:24|| Front Page Top

#3 #2...He was always willing to work with the UK - but he always took a very close look at their motives.
Yes. Carlo D'Este has written on WW2 military history. Eisenhower "got rolled" early and often by the British staff in the planning -- they showed up with a well-developed British Plan that always seemed, on careful study, to put British Goals first. Their job, certainly, but he learned that Caveat Emptor! was the watch word.

Posted by magpie 2018-06-21 12:05|| 2018-06-21 12:05|| Front Page Top

#4 Well that and the British spy service was practically run out of Moscow.

Posted by rjschwarz 2018-06-21 13:44|| 2018-06-21 13:44|| Front Page Top

#5 Now it's the globalist protection agency, regardless of their crimes.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2018-06-21 14:12|| 2018-06-21 14:12|| Front Page Top

#6 Backing the Egyptians during Suez was US mistake though.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2018-06-21 16:15|| 2018-06-21 16:15|| Front Page Top

#7 Theres a 3rd way to lose a war...import your enemies under the guise of multiculuralism and flush the culture that made the empire down the toilet

Posted by BrerRabbit 2018-06-21 16:22|| 2018-06-21 16:22|| Front Page Top

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