By John Zmirak, The Stream, August 31, 2023
John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or co-author of ten books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. He is co-author with Jason Jones of “God, Guns, & the Government.”
There was plenty wrong with Winston Churchill.
My political hero Pat Buchanan wrote a whole book about that. Besides being an egotist and a very heavy drinker, Churchill was an unbeliever, a religious agnostic at best. A warmonger for most of his life, Churchill had urged Britain into its bloody, pointless involvement in World War I, then presided over the bloodbath landing at Gallipoli.
Churchill’s anti-German stance made him hostile even to the peaceful Weimar Republic. Churchill had old-fashioned racial views (which today get him damned as a racist) and fervently wished to force India to remain a British colony.
But there was a moment when Winston Churchill was absolutely indispensable. …