Comments on The Pensive Quill: Hari and the Magician

2009-09-18T22:06:11.760+01:00

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What the Provisonals under Adams et al accepted in...

2009-09-18T18:56:49.274+01:00

What the Provisonals under Adams et al accepted in the end was pretty much what the SDLP had been arguing to put in place over the previous thirty years.
Sunningdale for the remedial learners!

I don't think it was a complete defeat for PIRA, but it most certainly was not a victory either.

Essentially what they won was limited (or comprehensive, depending on your

Have been thinking about the Adams assertion that ...

2009-09-18T10:21:50.921+01:00

Have been thinking about the Adams assertion that the Provisionals 'won.' Won what exactly, the right to enter local UK/NI politics on the same footing as the SDLP? Talk about doing things the hard way!
Adams was in the Dail the other day on the NAMA bill observing SF TD'S making fools of themselves. Maybe some of the FF lads will have pulled him to one side and enlightened

Alarming the level/depth of the hippocrisy Adams a...

2009-09-14T16:38:12.871+01:00

Alarming the level/depth of the hippocrisy Adams and Co. have. There's talk now of Unionists seeking money from Lybia. [Money was their only ever objective since plantation] What odds that Adams and Mcguinnes will fall in line as requested and throw their weight behind this campaign?
Is no one able to put them and US out of our agony?

2009-09-13T21:29:10.062+01:00

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Wonderfulformyage, a bleak outlook but one which i...

2009-09-13T20:35:04.782+01:00

Wonderfulformyage, a bleak outlook but one which is not without merit. I don't think it will go that far but time will tell. The defeat of the IRA was so comprehensive that it is instructive in itself. If its campaign could ony achieve what might have been achieved anyway and has dissuaded many from wanting a united Ireland what has a return to anything similar to recommend it, even if a 1969

2009-09-13T19:56:35.543+01:00

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Wonderfulformyage, family connection does nothing ...

2009-09-13T15:13:23.190+01:00

Wonderfulformyage, family connection does nothing to influence my political views or interests. My wife is more tuned into the healthcare debate than I am although my view of the US healthcare system has never been warm. Obama is better than what went before but I dislike the way he is surrounded by control freaks eager to suppress discussion and marginalise critics.

The US being a

2009-09-13T14:15:04.070+01:00

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Wonderfulformyage, the same reason I don't co...

2009-09-13T08:42:31.378+01:00

Wonderfulformyage,

the same reason I don't comment much on Danish politics at all or French or German. No time to follow it, no time to write about it.

2009-09-13T00:22:13.137+01:00

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Hello Westie, I don’t feel the ‘need’ to emphasi...

2009-09-12T22:46:18.946+01:00

Hello Westie,

I don’t feel the ‘need’ to emphasize the point. I think the opposite may be true – all the proclamations about the undefeated army show a ‘need’ to deny the obvious. I suppose I have long been impressed by Christopher Hitchen’s professed membership of the United Front Against Bullshit. So when I read bull I tend to comment on it. That is why I comment on religion quite a

Anthony Can I ask a question that flags up in my ...

2009-09-12T10:38:59.171+01:00

Anthony

Can I ask a question that flags up in my mind frequently whilst reading through the articles from time to time.

Why do you feel the need to emphaise so often your own opinion that the IRA campaign was a complete (you have used other adjectives) failure.

I don't have an issue with your opinion at all, that's what we're all entitled to, it's

Great piece, A. Not much to add as you note to wha...

2009-09-11T19:18:36.890+01:00

Great piece, A. Not much to add as you note to what's been said or not said by the Bearded One, but that explanation of how the IRA this generation met not defeat even by his standards or lack of took some convoluted phrasing. I think he's more inspired by Dev than he might let on. Cute hoor.

2009-09-11T17:44:18.433+01:00

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