Slightly fuzzy logic there
Saying "If it wasn't for the war, and the way he had led up to it, he would be regarded as one of the greatest leaders of the 20th century." is a bit like saying "if the ball had gone in the back of the net, it would have been a goal". It didn't, so it wasn't, so it's pretty much totally irrelevant.

In lovely rose-tinted revisionist history - "Nixon could have been one of Americas great presidents, if he hadn't been paranoid, bugged the Watergate building and then lied about it to the whole nation". But he did, so he wasn't.
(vertigo, Fri 2 May 2008, 14:11, Reply)