That's right Lali, which is why I distance myself from some of the more extreme hate on Thatcher going on. She wasn't Bin Ladin, or Hitler, or Stalin, or Mao.
Or even Pinochet, as much as I despise her support for him.
I understand the dislike, sure, and I don't think people have an obligation to speak nicely about her in death when they were against her policies in life. And I still think the very public funeral is a bad move. I am nervous about next week. People angry about Thatcher's legacy woud do better to concentrate on fighting for social justice here and now rather than creating ruckus at her funeral. If there is violence, I will find it inexcusable. All this could be avoided, however, if our current government had more sense, and sensitivity.
But I am certainly interested in how Americans see Thatcher.
I can see how her get-up-and-go-ness would go down well! And I understand how many in the US are impressed by a woman leading a nation, we beat you on that one, just as you have pipped us to the post with a black man as your leader.
It will be some time before we catch up on that one ...
And I know zilch about American politics, that's never stopped me having an opinion about it.
"Frodo undertook his quest out of love - to save the world he knew from disaster at his own expense, if he could ... "
Letter no. 246, The Collected Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
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