| While I wouldn't adopt the over-the-top language of Trotsky's eminently partisan diatribe, I too am skeptical. We've heard a lot of mealy-mouthed bullshit over the years about decommissining and rendering weapons unusable, and none of it ever really happened.
The McGuinness/Adams types may have acquired a taste for political office and power, but the tough guys behind them presumably still have the means of raising hell if they decide to. And, as Trots says, they continue to stand in the way of the rule of law in any meaningful sense. Like so many armed groups around the world who started out with a political agenda, they've descended into cheap mafioso banditry. They aren't going to give that up in a hurry.
Meanwhile, Rick is right that this statement will be press-ganged into the Bushista media machine along with that spell of nice weather in Iowa.
"I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything."
-- Viscount Melbourne |