Re: "Realpolitik: An Interview with John O'Sullivan"
By Letters To The Editor Graydon Wilson (12/20/06)
John O'Sullivan demonstrates a level of understanding of Ireland and Britain's involvement there generally comparable to the understanding that might be expected from a junior high school child in Bulgaria as regards the American War Between the States.
When it is remembered that he was an advisor to Margaret Thatcher, her conduct becomes somewhat more understandable, just as learning that the mechanic had loosened the brake lines helps to explain a drunk driver's precipitous plunge over a cliff.
Mr. O'Sullivan certainly is entitled to his own opinions. It would be helpful, however, if they were formed on the basis of actual facts and not uninformed suppositions. It is precisely that manner of approach to decision-making that has resulted in the quagmire in which America finds itself in Iraq.
That the interviewer, Bernard Chapin, regards Mr. Sullivan as "one of the most famous political commentators alive" tells legions about Mr. Chapin himself.
Graydon Wilson
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