IRSP: No to American Crusade - Defend Ireland's Neutrality

[Danielle Ni Dhighe <nidhighe@xxxxxxxx>]

Irish Republican Socialist Party
24 October 2001

No to American Crusade - Defend Ireland's Neutrality

Following the slaughter in New York and Washington the American
administration now seeks to build a 'coalition against terrorism'
essentially, a by word for the prosecution of war against the
innocent peoples of Afghanistan and the Middle East, and central to
the building of this 'coalition' has been the need to acquire support
from the puppet governments of both Britain and Ireland. Within days
of September 11th both went on record supporting without
qualification the American cause.

Ireland is supposed to be a neutral country, but yet here we are
siding with America, a country which has reaped terrible reward as a
result of decades of misguided foreign policy in the Middle East and
elsewhere in the world. We recall the American inspired slaughter in
Lebanon, her support for Israeli tyranny against the Palestinian
people, the sanctions inspired by America against Iraq since the Gulf
war, sanctions which have so far cost the lives of a million Iraqi
children, not to mention the bombing of Serbia orchestrated by NATO.
Despite this record of terror no-one in government circles in Ireland
uttered one word of condemnation against these unjust American
actions!

The people of Afghanistan may prove the latest target for American
revenge. Are we in Ireland now expected to support the wholesale
slaughter of these oppressed people so Bush, his White House staff
and the American lap-dog Tony Blair can be seen to have done
something? It certainly seems that we are given the disposition of
our government. We have a situation now in Ireland where British
planes regularly patrol the nation's airspace and American troop
planes land in Shannon and Knock airports, but yet we are supposed to
be a neutral country. We call for an end to these flagrant breaches
of our neutral status at the behest of a puppet government in
Leinster House.

We call for America to ponder why such a terrible deed was inflicted
against her as a means to explore a solution, as opposed to the
prosecution of an unjust war. American terror, such as that witnessed
in Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq and Serbia, as much as that of any other
variety must be eradicated.

ENDS

Irish Republican Socialist Party
4 Cavendish Row, Dublin 1, Ireland
Tel/Fax: 01 8735620
Web site: http://www.irsm.org/irsm.html


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