Blair’s blind support for Bush will have repercussions for many years

FOREIGN Affairs Minister Dermot Ahern was articulate in calling for an immediate ceasefire in the Lebanon.

He noted that we have learned from our own history that the tactics being employed by the Israelis are counterproductive. Unfortunately, the British never seem to learn.

They did not learn from the mistakes of 1916, or the War of Independence when they introduced the Black and Tans, who drove the Irish people firmly into the hands of the militant republicans. They made the same mistakes again in the North Ireland during the early 1970s.