EL SALVADOR
Editorial IRELAND IT WOULD be hard to find a better example of the proverbial British hypocrisy and its purposes than the oh-so-earnest comment on, and celebration of, the Anglo-Irish Accords by a whole spectrum of British politicians, Labour and Tory, as well as by any number of BBC «documentaries.»
The object has been to portray the problem in Northern Ireland simply as a «misunderstanding» and building «trust,» which of course requires assuring the status quo.
This is what the agreement does. It gives Dublin an institutional means for expressing its opinions about Northern Irish affairs in return for concrete collaboration in suppressing the rebellion of the population Dublin claims to renrecant