----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 3:22 PM Subject: RE: The case against conspiracy
Max Sawicky wrote:
>Not a massacre. If I'm dug in and you're stupid
enough to
>charge my position, the onus is on you. mbs
>
>> The horrors of mechanized warfare confuse things.
E.g., how would you
> > categorize the Battle of the Somme, where wave on
wave of UK
> > soldiers walked into German machine gun fire,
resulting in 35,494 British
> > seriously wounded and 19,240 dead in a single
day -- a massacre or ritual
>suicide?
Did that charge make any kind of ruthless sense? What were the generals who ordered it thinking?
Doug
============ There's a quote in "The Great War and Modern Memory" where one of the British General staff asserted divine inspiration for the strategy of the battle...if I remember right.
Ian