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- From: Crawford_Kilian@mindlink.bc.ca (Crawford Kilian)
- Subject: Re: Senate Interrogation
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 21:19:28 GMT
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- This thread has frayed a little...the issue isn't whether Bomber Harris was
- right, wrong or barking mad. It isn't whether bombing Germany prolonged the
- war or shortened it. It's whether someone can discuss a historical issue in
- the Canadian mass media and present a particular interpretation that other
- people may disagree with.
-
- I hold no particular brief for the McKenna brothers, and I didn't see the
- whole series. The Hong Kong sequence didn't seem to me to contradict other
- historical accounts of the Canadians' experience there. But for all I know,
- that sequence was all baloney.
-
- The view that bombing Germany accomplished nothing militarily useful is not a
- new one; I must have read a dozen books that argued (or at least discussed)
- that position, and no one complained or had the authors hauled up in front of
- a Senate committee.
-
- It might even be that the Senate had a point, but when I heard John Sylvain
- (PC-Quebec, appointed 1990, thank you very much Brian) distort Brian
- McKenna's college-paper editorials from the 1960s, I knew we were dealing
- with good old-fashioned repression like Joe McCarthy used to make.
-
- We'll probably never know (even if we were there) what really happened in the
- skies of Germany 50 years ago, and whether it meant a damn thing. But we
- ought to know that freedom of expression is under immediate threat from
- tax-paid Senators like Sylvain. And we ought to be yelling our heads off
- about that, not about Gwynne bloody Dwyer's credibility.
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