Has this war been "over" and "won" almost as long as Esther Rantzen has had six months to live? Or does it just feel that way? Only Donald Trump could have compared someone unfavourably to Winston Churchill while entertaining the Taoiseach, and a Fianna Fáil Taoiseach at that, on Saint Patrick's Day. Micheál Martin should have replied with a rendition of Come Out Ye Black and Tans.
Note, though, that Martin did defend hardcore Atlanticism. Ireland is no more neutral than the green and orange stripes of the Tricolour. If you think that Shannon Airport has no role in this war, then ponder the fact that taken together or even separately, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael were just about the Platonic form of an Epstein Class party.
Trump's Administration reflects his high intellectual standards. Pete Hegseth is as bad a man as Ali Larijani was, but he is not a published scholar of Kant. Hegseth's chest may be inked with the Jerusalem Cross, but does he know that Israel has closed the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, banning Holy Week and Easter services for the first time ever (that never happened in 12 or 13 centuries of Muslim rule), while several hundred churches and 100 synagogues remained open in Iran? Would anything in that last sentence make the slightest sense to him?
And there is only one British party with a member on Trump's Board of Peace, and if Britain were not a participant in the war with Iran, then there would never have been even that purely symbolic attack on Akrotiri, nor would there have been any attempt to ban the Quds Day march for the first time in its 47 years, and based on the Government's outriders' laughable rhetoric, Tony Blair could not retain his Labour Party membership card. As it is, though, the Government and the Tony Blair Institute have just launched that sure sign of a foregone conclusion, a public consultation. On digital ID. Think on.
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