In this article, the ever excellent Kevin Myers of the Irish Independent, asks the publishers of the Guardian why they saw fit to hire a defeated terrorist warlord to act as a moral arbiter over the actions of the British Army in Afghanistan.
Written with his usual searing disregard for reputations - in this case, those of a dissembling murderer and his naive self-hating paymasters - I think he's got it spot on; but what do you think?
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Sometimes, he writes with a searing disregard for his own safety.
Monty
As befits a man who spent most of the early seventies dodging bullets in Belfast whlst reporting for RTE.
His book about that period of his life, Watching The Door, is a good read, by the way.
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