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here's an interesting article:
Margaret Thatcher and misapplied death etiquette | Glenn Greenwald | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Irvine511 and cobl, here are a few reasons, taken from the article in the above link (the Falklands war was another of her terrible and brutal mistakes which isn't mentioned below):
Margaret Thatcher and misapplied death etiquette | Glenn Greenwald | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
i couldn't begin to pretend to know or understand Thatcher's influence on the UK or the world as a whole. but i will say that i find the UK a vibrant, fascinating place with one of the world's truly great cities at it's core, and i can't help but think that she had at least something to do with the country's seemingly successful post-war, post-Empire realignment/reassessment.
surely she can't be all bad?
I'm having this problem too. Not knowing much about her, and still not understanding what conservatism and socialism really mean despite studying them for a semester this year, it's hard to get a gauge. The left are painting her as an evil witch, and the right are lauding her as one of the world's greatest leaders.
Irvine511 and cobl, here are a few reasons, taken from the article in the above link (the Falklands war was another of her terrible and brutal mistakes which isn't mentioned below):
Whatever else may be true of her, Thatcher engaged in incredibly consequential acts that affected millions of people around the world. She played a key role not only in bringing about the first Gulf War but also using her influence to publicly advocate for the 2003 attack on Iraq. She denounced Nelson Mandela and his ANC as "terrorists", something even David Cameron ultimately admitted was wrong. She was a steadfast friend to brutal tyrants such as Augusto Pinochet, Saddam Hussein and Indonesian dictator General Suharto ("One of our very best and most valuable friends"). And as my Guardian colleague Seumas Milne detailed last year, "across Britain Thatcher is still hated for the damage she inflicted – and for her political legacy of rampant inequality and greed, privatisation and social breakdown."