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© Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.Britain plans unprecedented D-Day event for queen, leaders
By GREGORY KATZ LONDON©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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SwissToni
With the far right on the rise again in the world, this an important chance to take a moment and reflect on the potential consequences of populist nationalism. There isn’t a person alive today that doesn’t owe thanks to the generation that fought and died opposing the Axis forces.
redelmotalking
For anyone who wants to know what the fuss is all about, watch the first 15 mins of saving private Ryan. You’ll get an idea of what they went through and why it should be commemorated.
Bintaro
It's depressing to have Trump come to France on this special occasion.
My grand father who fought in the French Resistance must be rolling in his grave.
bass4funk
Love this President, what an honor to go to the country that was a our first real ally. Good luck, Mr. President.
goldorak
And rightly so. Let's be honest, half those countries collaborated with the nazis. ' A Europe without Jews, Gypsies, swarthy looking ppl and communists? Where do I sign up?!'
Germany isn't solely responsible for ww2 (at least in Europe). Plenty of enablers and collaborators all across Europe.
englisc aspyrgend
Strangely enough it isn’t all about Trump, he is just one of many and far from the most important on the day, that would be the veterans of D day. So concentrate on the importance of the occasion and not some here today gone tomorrow politician.
lostrune2
Both World Wars were started by nationalists
Anonymous
@zichi
Yes, horror. Yes, all sides lose. Despite that some wars must be fought and won.
u_s__reamer
Draft dodger Trump who has zero interest in and no knowledge of history is manifestly the wrong person to represent the USA at any ceremony to memorialize the sacrifice of American soldiers in WW2. The people who voted for him ought to be ashamed of making such a buffoon of low morals the POTUS.
bass4funk
Millions of people didn’t go to war, doesn’t mean they don’t know history or gives them less validity to comment on it. Come on now....
Oh, we are most definitely not, in fact, we feel more pride and vindicated than ever.
Blacklabel
Seems liberals would be more concerned about why a Merkel was invited to this?
SwissToni
Pride for the man that refuses to call out Neo Fascists? Pride for the man that lied while standing next to the British PM about the protests outside the very building he was in.
Shame, shame!!
bass4funk
He has, but you wouldn’t know because of the constant media blare, he called out all form of radical extremism.
Gee, if he lied, he wouldn’t be the first nor will he be the last politician to lie.
SwissToni
Excuses excuses.
Simon Foston
bass4funkToday 05:48 pm JST
What a pity you weren't living in the Soviet Union in the 1930s. You could have done pretty well for yourself writing this kind of stuff about Stalin.
bass4funk
I think a lot of liberals could have lived perfectly well, happy and content in that era.
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@bass4funk
Most would agree that George Bernard Shaw was a liberal. Apparently he was content with Stalin’s purges in the 1930s:
“He [Shaw] continued: "But the top of the ladder is a very trying place for old revolutionists who have had no administrative experience, who have had no financial experience, who have been trained as penniless hunted fugitives with Karl Marx on the brain and not as statesmen.
"They often have to be pushed off the ladder with a rope around their necks," wrote Shaw, apparently justifying Stalin's execution of many of those who had led the Bolshevik revolution in 1917.” (The Telegraph, 18 June 2003)
Fun. So bass4funk is equivalent to an apologist for Stalin?