In reply to Sharp:
...Who had a better understanding of WW1, someone who fought there or someone who's spent their time studying history.....
I think I agree with you Ben, having lived and worked through the Thatcher era, I have puzzled over many of her decisions,it has Taken years to unravel things, but the final piece of the jigsaw came out tonight when listening to Question Time and Thatcher's biographer, shone a light on her attitude to the Falklands, when he said that she entered politics and wanted to prove she could do the big jobs like Chancellor, and WAR.
So , whilst at the time I disliked her policies, I was pro her stance on the Falklands
(I was young and impressionable is my only excuse, and of course the first casualty of was is the truth) Now, years later I realise her reasons to send the fleet were not to save anyone on the islands , but it was to fulfil an ambition to prove that she could 'do War ' too. And this was also at a time when she needed a boost in the polls as she would never have won the next election without winning that conflict. It also came along at a good time for her, just as North Sea Oil did. She was a lucky PM.
I think history will find her out.