Just what the hell is up with those Irishmen?
It's got to take a special sort of commitment to nurturing one's grievances to keep them fresh for 400 years. This latest brouhaha arose because the city of Belfast will no longer fly the Union Jack?
Oh please!
For this people are prepared to die? Preposterous!
Generally speaking conflict occurs between people who are "different." American lads schlepping through the jungles of Viet Nam knew who the enemy were because the enemy looked different and spoke a different language.
All throughout the Cold War we knew the bad guys dressed odd, ate way too much cabbage, and talked funny. Nobody ever mistook one of them for one of us.
In our various wars in the Muslim lands, the enemy looks different and dresses different and speaks a different language. Even a doe-eyed private on his first tour can tell who is friend and who is foe.
But over there in Ireland, they're all white. They all speak the same language. They dress the same. They eat the same food, except I suppose the republicans eat more fish on Friday.
And what really floors me is they're all Christians! How does this even begin to make sense? The lot of them, loyalist and republican, catholic and protestant, just finished celebrating the birth of their blessed savior not two weeks ago!
What would Jesus do?
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