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It took 4 Irish-Catholic leaders to stop the Irish lobby’s support for violence in N. Ireland

I keep wanting to post this. Three weeks back, Chris Matthews eulogized the late Hugh Carey and showed that he knows damn well how damaging religious affinities to a troubled land halfway around the world can be. Matthews:

[Carey] did something else for which he will always be remembered by Irish Americans. It was he along with Tip O’Neill, Ted Kennedy, and Pat Moynihan who ended, for all times I hope, American support for the violence in Northern Ireland. They were the famed four horsemen, named for Knut Rockne’s Notre Dame backfield, who started what ended with the Good Friday accord, and with that, the end to the troubles, the time… that had the Irish killing each other for too many years….

Chris, you understand religion and politics better than anyone. When are you going to talk about why the neoconservatives support war with Iran? When are you going to address the broad support inside the Jewish community– including on the part of Michael Milken, James Tisch and Ace Greenberg— for settlers and their violent actions in the West Bank, through tax-deductible organizations? When will you tell your viewers about the 80-odd congresspeople who went to Israel this summer, and why?

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