More Selective Moralising

I could post everyday about this hack, so I'll be cutting back from now on. It is quite pointless.

Kevin Myers states in Friday's Irish Times "men do not take arms against an intangible thing like a "regime", but against real people, with real families and real souls." Yet his support for 'Western' pre-emption in Iraq and the subsequent alteration of purpose evidences none of these ideals he now professes. The hypocrisy is deafening.

An Irishman's Diary
Kevin Myers

"And they are central to everything. Because men do not take arms against an intangible thing like a "regime", but against real people, with real families and real souls. And I can apparently repeat this forever, and never get a forthright answer from those who wax so lyrical about the Rising. So here we go again. What made the Volunteers immune to the fifth commandment and allowed them to kill unarmed Irish police and civilians?"

Full Article... The Irish Times