Thursday, August 05, 2010

Kevin Myers and a question for the Guardian...

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?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sometimes, he writes with a searing disregard for his own safety.

Monty

This Royal Throne of Kings said...

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.