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The meaning of MacDonald‘s quip whooshed over your head. Read it again.

• Spivak 3y ago
  No it didn't, it's a cute quip trying to play on how history is written by the winners but his version isn't actually true. There are plenty of examples where it's generally agreed that the "bad guys" won. Even if you try to read it as good bad being subjective I don't think there's any fixed lens though which a history book would interpret the winners being the good guys in every conflict. The bad guys for sure won the Iraq war.
  • menzoic 3y ago
    You also missed it. There will be varying accounts, but history written by the “bad guys” will frame things differently to make them seem like the good guys.
    • thaumasiotes 3y ago
      > There will be varying accounts, but history written by the “bad guys” will frame things differently to make them seem like the good guys. That's true, but since they frequently lose, that produces a lot of history showing that the good guys lost.
    • LeafItAlone 3y ago
      What you seem to be interpreting the quote as (and likely what it truly is intended to mean) is: “We have been the good guys in every single war.” Rather than “ the good guys have won every single war”. At least in my history books in school growing, my country was framed as the good guys and listed wars we lost.
  • AlbertCory 3y ago
    It's humor. Not all facts are to be taken literally. I guess you didn't get that.