Childers was wilfully & perversely caught up in the Irish troubles which followed the Easter Rising for years. Can't see what possible relevance you imagine, Al, that his fate has to this kingsize rod·for·its·own back which America has permitted itself to become subject to. If the #s involved have evolved to such a level of apparent unmanageability, then it is surely up to those of goodwill to stop throwing up their ☞·☜ in helpless horror and find some way out of this intolerable impasse in which they have become nationally embroiled.

Or else they can go on mowing one another down like there's no tomorrow. Won't make the remotest difference to me -- so long as none of my many dear friends and relations over there are among the inevitable rollcall of victims.

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