Good paragraph from one of the Guardian stories today, by William Pfaff - notes what I have said before that D-Day didn't change the course of the war -
'The Normandy landings determined the way in which the Second World War ended, but not the outcome itself. That had been settled at El Alamein in 1942 and Stalingrad in 1943. Germany had been forced into retreat. Had the landings failed, the war would have been prolonged but not lost. The fire bombs would have been followed by nuclear bombs. That was not an outcome on anyone's mind on that June day 60 years ago.'
Hmm, a possible look into the future - not a good one either. Going back to the instability in Saudi Arabia I have mentioned over the last couple days. Scary.
Okay, that's all from the newswires today.
Later tater
Paul
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