There were two letters in THE IRISH TIMES yesterday (24 May) which convincingly put the case for the return to the Irish non-belligerence in disputes between the Great Power Blocs and constructive neutrality as pursued for many decades by Eamon de Valera and Frank Aiken, though of course neither of those statesmen got a mention. It was a pity that Eoin Dillon singled out President Putin for condemnation.
I don’t think he and all his compatriots rank with St Francis of Assisi. But I can think of many Western politicians and soldiers, propagandists and judges who have the blood of millions of innocent human beings on their hands, some literally, others metaphorically. The worst of them have never been in a war zone.
And Frank McNally, surely the best Diarist in the paper’s history, quotes George W Bush’s great Freudian Slip, the Bard of Stratford of Avon, and Lady MacBeth complaining:
“All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.”
Blair and his cronies night put that in their pipes and smoke it,
I see the Irish Times boasts its “Trusted Journalism since 1859”.
Yesterday was a remarkable day in its history. Most of which was TRUSSED-UP mendacity.
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