[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Soldier Boy

So you agree that the problem wasn't the paragraph in his book - the problem was the great honking spotlight that the media chose to shine on that paragraph. Quite right.

No I dont agree with confirming the number of kills as you well know and that would go for any author

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Cherie

No I dont agree with confirming the number of kills as you well know and that would go for any author

But you loosely agree that part of the issue here is that a spotlight was put on those words and it was drawn to the attention of these groups because of the world media attention, and that would not be the case if (when) someone else writes the same sort of words.