Eamon De Valera was once depicted as a penguin on an ice flow in a vast ocean saying"We will defend our territorial integrity at all costs".As far as I can remember this was because he had the wisdom,foresight and integrity to stay neutral during the second world war ,which as we all know was fought between the great European Colonist States.Many Irishmen did die ,mainly on the Allied side during the war.
That number pales into insignificance into what would have died had this Country gone to war.
Dev was a Statesman of the highest status,probably the only one we ever had.
We have had a long tradition of neutrality, a position which all our Political Parties swore by whenever Constitutional change was promulgated by amendments to the European Treaties.Anyone who doubted this publicly was branded a nut case.
Now we are tied to the coat tails of the E.U.policy of supporting sanctions against Iran.If I am not mistaken we supported the E.U. in its support of the NATO bombardment of Libya.
Let us face it ,we have been codded and are now small cog in the pockets of they most warlike nations in history .
As Mohamed Ali would say",why should I go to fight them Iranians,they did nothing to me.".Watch the price of oil go up as we suffer further deprivation,don't be one bit surprised if Iran is bombed and what's the betting that we will be asked to send soldiers to fight in the conflict.
Come back Dev.Your country needs you now more than ever.
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