re: #351 HappyWarrior

I dunno. There hasn’t been the equiv of a Good Friday Agreement in Afghanistan which helped the peace efforts in NI tremendously. Plus McGuinness was shaking hands with the queen rather than someone like Ian Paisley.

So pursue a Good Friday agreement with the Taliban then. Split off a reasonable negotiating group and leave the rest to self-destruct.

Obviously it isn’t an easy process. Those who followed the Northern Ireland process will know that it takes a long time and there are many setbacks to be overcome.

But McGuinness ran the IRA, who assassinated the Queen’s cousin. So I don’t think it’s an unreasonable comparison. And he is involved in a political process that includes Ian Paisley and his ilk.