Comments on: ‘Lowering Our Sights’ http://www.gavinsblog.com/2004/05/04/lowering-our-sights/ Estd. in Ireland, July 2002 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:42:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: niall http://www.gavinsblog.com/2004/05/04/lowering-our-sights/comment-page-1/#comment-2531 niall Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.gavinsblog.com/?p=1091#comment-2531 Kagan? Author of the diatribe "Paradise and Power", the most over-rated piece of slapdash international affairs analysis I've ever read? Think I'll give this particular article a miss, thanks very much. Kagan? Author of the diatribe “Paradise and Power”, the most over-rated piece of slapdash international affairs analysis I’ve ever read? Think I’ll give this particular article a miss, thanks very much.

]]> By: Gavin http://www.gavinsblog.com/2004/05/04/lowering-our-sights/comment-page-1/#comment-2532 Gavin Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.gavinsblog.com/?p=1091#comment-2532 Well everyone is entitled to their opinion - but theres no doubting that Paradise and Power has caused a huge amount of debate - including dissent - as you express. Well everyone is entitled to their opinion – but theres no doubting that Paradise and Power has caused a huge amount of debate – including dissent – as you express.

]]> By: Peter Nolan http://www.gavinsblog.com/2004/05/04/lowering-our-sights/comment-page-1/#comment-2533 Peter Nolan Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.gavinsblog.com/?p=1091#comment-2533 I do think he has captured the cdauses of the U.S./Europe split very well. It also seemed to me to be the most useful book I've come across for understanding the cultural roots of Irish neutrality. Given that we've hitched a completely free ride for national defence from our geographic position straddling the air- and sea-lanes between the U.K. and U.S., I'm not surprised we see even the collective security of NATO during the Cold War (even when we didn't have an embassy in Moscow!) as something dirty and sinful with which we on this holy island won't contaminate ourselves. BTW, juicy blog Gavin! I do think he has captured the cdauses of the U.S./Europe split very well. It also seemed to me to be the most useful book I’ve come across for understanding the cultural roots of Irish neutrality.

Given that we’ve hitched a completely free ride for national defence from our geographic position straddling the air- and sea-lanes between the U.K. and U.S., I’m not surprised we see even the collective security of NATO during the Cold War (even when we didn’t have an embassy in Moscow!) as something dirty and sinful with which we on this holy island won’t contaminate ourselves.

BTW, juicy blog Gavin!

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