Check any list of ‘great men’ of the 20th Century and you’re sure to find him ranked at or near the very top. In remembrance of his noble attributes and deeds, statues of ‘Sir Winston’ stand all over Britain, and even four corners of the world. Countless schools bear his name, as do parks, towns, squares, highways, streets, tanks, submarines, ships, mountain ranges, trust funds and even cigars. When there is a talk of British bulldog its all about a freedom fighter, an ambitious climber, a smart journalist, a brave soldier and a genius war leader who saved Britain and the ‘free world’ from capitulating to Adolf Hitler. He is voted ‘Greatest Briton’ of all time. But going beyond his heroic images propagated over 6 decades draws a clashing picture. Much of Churchill’s dark past is deliberately airbrushed out of history. …show more content…
Churchill found his love for war while he was only 22 serving as a cavalryman in the British Army against afghan tribes’ uprising. Among inhospitable mountains of Afghanistan, Winston was looking the opportunity to make a name for himself preparing the ground to seed his future political career. They (Afghans) are a degraded race as any on the fringe of humanity. fierce as a tiger but less cleanly; as dangerous, not so graceful It was during his tour of duty in Afghanistan when his racist views about Muslims reached a new apocalyptic level. He published his newspaper article as a colonial soldier under the titled: "Civilisation is face to face with militant Mohammedism” to keep the British empire on the cheap When he grow rank to ‘Secretary of State for the Colonies’ in 1921 he founded the ‘Middle East Department’ responsible for Mesopotamia currently known as parts of Iraq and Syria today. He shifted the traditional ground troops colonialism into air power