Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "The reason Gallipoli failed" video.

Attaturk was one of the greats of the Twentieth Century -- and it's a damn shame that the country he built out of the Ottoman wreckage is now becoming embittered by the Europeans', chiefly the French, refusal to let them "in to" Europe. For that matter, how come the sainted Chancellor Merkel didn't get around to fixing the citizenship of Germans of Turkish ancestry?
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@dovetonsturdee7033 Churchill was First Lord of the Admiralty at the time, you halfwit. Gallipoli was Churchill's show, first, last, and forever -- and he was demoted to "Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster," a fate worse than life itself -- your normal average punishment for an upper-class twit who has just managed to kill off a few thousand troops under his command.
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@stephengrimmer35 Anzio was another example of Churchill's nonsensical ideas about "the soft underbelly of Europe." Nobody ever told the fool about the Alps.
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@Caratacus1 "“History will be kind to me for I am going to write it”. -- Winston, uh, Churchill. You read very well, Chief.
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All through WWII, the senior military guys had to stay up all night, undoing by night the maps and plans that Churchill had forced upon them during the day. Churchill was a great inspirational figure. Rather like Trotsky, he was always full of brilliant ideas, all of them attractive to his followers, most of them wrong. At Exchequer he was wrong about the gold standard. In this early post, as First Lord, he was wrong about the Dardanelles. (They were just one of the soft underbellies he was wrong about: In talking about the soft underbelly of Europe he somehow seems to have missed the Alps.) He was right about only one thing, don't negotiate with Hitler, just hang on until the Americans come in.
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@geraldperyman6535 Churchill was certainly a bold and inspiring voice as Prime Minister, and if you read the history, I think you'll agree with me that he was one of the few on the English right who understood Hitler early and correctly. He was never much of a strategist, though, and many of his ideas on the subject, if we are to be charitable, quaint. I'm sorry your grandfathers got caught up in WWI, an exercise in futility and stupidity, and even sorrier about the cost to the one who was killed by his politicians' folly.
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