martes, 13 de noviembre de 2018

Ten Lies Told About World War I - Global ResearchGlobal Research - Centre for Research on Globalization

Ten Lies Told About World War I - Global ResearchGlobal Research - Centre for Research on Globalization

 

 This Remembrance Day will doubtless see strenuous efforts by some to
justify the fruitless bloodbath that was the First World War.
Revisionist commentators have long
attempted to rehabilitate the conflict as necessary and just, but the
arguments do not stand up. It does no service to the memory of the dead
to allow any illusions in the justice or necessity of war, particularly
so when the precedents will be used to argue for the next ‘necessary’
conflict. From the causes of the war, to its prosecution and its
results, here are the counter-arguments to ten common pro-war ploys.