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Re:State of emergency declared across France after Paris sho... by oblio on Friday November 13, 2015 @06:59PM (#10563396)
I don't think Churchill is the best benchmark for such matters:

"starvation of anyhow underfed Bengalis is less serious than that of sturdy Greeks"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943#Suppli...

And definitely not a benchmark for the 21st century.

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Re:State of emergency declared across France after Paris sho... by tosseraccount on Saturday November 14, 2015 @11:56AM (#10566288)
Churchill was fighting the Nazis at the time and prioritized shipping to best defeat the enemy.
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Re:State of emergency declared across France after Paris sho... by oblio on Saturday November 14, 2015 @05:25PM (#10567545)
At the expense of millions of what he should have considered his own people. I'm stretching the analogy a little here, but I'm sure you can think of another Allied leader that did the same.

And the other allied leader has (deservedly) an awful reputation. Definitely a reputation which is worse than Churchill's.

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Re:State of emergency declared across France after Paris sho... by tosseraccount on Sunday November 15, 2015 @08:43AM (#10569577)
Mao? Chang Kai Chek? De Gaulle?
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