Freddie said:
petewood said:
Ok then, reading Kendor's link re-enforced my view that Harris was only one step up from a war criminal and he should have been booted out of the RAF before he had a chance to do any harm.
Your mad !!!
Suppose on your thinking every Spitfire pilot should be court marshalled actually killing a German airman when they could have just shot the plane up if they had taken much more care.
Now you are loony left !
Freddie, you seem to be labelling everyone who disagrees with you as (a) left and (b) loony. Moreover, you frequently associate the two as being one and the same. Does this mean that you're a loony righty? If not, then how would you prefer to be labelled?
Here's another idea - take a comment written by another poster, form your opinion about it, and post your reply without being abusive or critical.
Also, try to reply just to that point, rather than extrapolate it to an extreme that is clearly ridiculous and then accuse the poster of having a ridiculous opinion.
For example, instead of this:
Suppose on your thinking every Spitfire pilot should be court marshalled actually killing a German airman...
You could write this:
I don't agree with your interpretation of history there. Would you apply this to every airman in the RAF, or are you just talking about one of them?
If we do this then we might have a reasoned debate, not a game of historical ping pong where we have to go running to the corner of the room to retrieve the ball after each failed smash.
It's just an idea - are you open-minded enough to give it a try?