of course he is, he is by far more often right than he is wrong[/QUOTE]
Hear, hear!
[quote=“farmerinthecity”]Generally I have a problem with these journalists who comment on society in general, the likes of Myers, Waters or that cunt O’Doherty.
Who are they and what gives them the right to cast judgement?
Myers was once on The Last Word lamenting the fact that he can’t see the ‘Dublin’ in O’Connell Street anymore. He went on to say that we will regret opening our borders during the boom times so much as Irishness is being eroded away.
What a retard. What about the generations of Irish that survived on that exact basis. Gobshite.[/QUOTE]
As has been pointed out, this is the purpose of newspaper columnists. Apart from factual news reporting, all papers contain opinion pieces which people know to be just that. Take them or leave them. and just because Myers doesn’t kow-tow to the populist agenda doesn’t make him wrong (or right for that matter, though I believe he often is right).
[quote=“giuseppe”]Illiterate peasants - what a cunt.
America saving the world - who supported Iraq against Iran? Who supported Afghanistan against the Russians? Whatever shower of cunts they put in if they do win will ‘need’ to be got rid of in 20 years anyway. Who arms the the horrible zionist cunts in Israel? America are the biggest threat to our culture as long as we are associated with them and they keep making enemies.[/QUOTE]
Was that the sound of a knee jerking? Check things out properly. The biggest material supporters of Iraq (and Saddam), by a very long way, were France and that bastion of non-involvement Germany, with Russia keen to exand its interests also. Small surprise that France and Germany were the two
main objectors to US policy in Iraq. Their opposition wasn’t based on principles, though they claimed it was, but on the threat to their lucrative commercial interests there.
Yes, the americans did support the Mujahadeen against the Russians. but what’s your point there? The Taliban are not the Mujahedeen.
Yes the US supports Israel (sometimes not sensibly) but the Arab side isn’t without a few quid either (Saudi Arabia isn’t exactly poor is it) and the Iranians (though not Arabs) put huge amounts of money and arms into the region through their support of Hamas and Hezbollah. When the UN partitioned Palestine in 1948 it was the Palestinians, supported by an invasion by 3 neighbouring Arab armies, that tried to eliminate the Jewish state before it was formed. The Israelis, with no help from the US at that stage, and dependent on equipment stolen from the British, defeated the Arabs and since then have repeatedly beaten them.