McTag wrote:George is a very erudite and articulate model of restraint. I only know he is cross with me when he starts addressing me in the third person. He lectures me on history and I think actually holds me personally responsible for what Cromwell did in Drogheda. But in a nice way.
Not just Drogheda, and not just Cromwell. Throw in the Council of Whitbey, 1701, Wolf Tone, Parnel, McSwiney and many others, McTag !
Quote:If he has one fault, it is that he will not yet concede what has become plain to most: that USA interests are being very badly served, and its proud reputation sullied and its treasure squandered, its laws traduced and its Constitution subverted, by the most disreputable bunch of criminals ever to lie and cheat their way into public office in a western democracy.
It is possible, but unlikely I think, that this will be the judgement of history - too early to tell. Contemporary judgements of events are usually wrong, as the British and French people discovered after their governments sold out the Czechs (and, in effect, the Poles) to Hitler at Munich - all to popular acclaim, and their eventual great misfortune. Many Western Europeans were similarly wrong in their hand-wringing and timidity as Ronald Reagan (and Margaret Thatcher) openly challenged a tottering Soviet Union.
Perhaps I will give up the 'lecturing' as it seems to have done little to dent McTag's fixed preoccupations and the hyperbole that he persistently offers in place of considered judgement and comparative analysis. A closed mind is a small, but daunting thing.
