March 8, 2003
IT'S A START (via Reductio ad Absurdum):
Terrorist link prompts Bush to snub Adams (Toby Harnden, 06/03/2003, Daily Telegraph)Gerry Adams, the Sinn Fein leader, will not be permitted to shake hands with President George W Bush or visit the Oval Office during next week's St Patrick's Day celebrations at the White House.The decision was taken after the Farc, a Colombian narco-terrorist group, used its training from the Provisional IRA to launch a campaign of urban bombing and began to target Americans.
A defence contractor working for the US Army was murdered and three more taken hostage by the Farc last month after their single engine Cessna plane crashed in the jungle 200 miles south of Bogota. [...]
Last year, Mr Adams was among a group of five party leaders photographed with Mr Bush in the Oval Office along with Bertie Ahern, the Irish premier, and John Reid, then Northern Ireland Secretary. This year, there will be no photograph and no contact between Mr Adams and Mr Bush.
Nothing can ever eliminate the moral stench of having allowed Adams and Arafat into the White House, but this public snubbing is a start. Criminal trials should follow for both. Posted by Orrin Judd at March 8, 2003 11:38 AM
I hope this gets some play in the UK. There was a time when the British could rightly say that Irish-Americans fascination with the IRA (and the rest of America's conplicitous silence about it) undermined our credibility. Of course, their adulation with Clinton seemed to have papered this....
Posted by: MG at March 8, 2003 1:51 PM