tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post1034420896705930616..comments2024-03-29T10:10:03.288+00:00Comments on TPQ: Secret History Of Internal Revenue AuditingAMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-32442066467063367332018-03-05T20:28:20.816+00:002018-03-05T20:28:20.816+00:00DaithiD,
The overlap between the Council and Exec...DaithiD,<br /><br />The overlap between the Council and Executive at times seemed bizarre, top heavy and set up to fail. I agree that Adams molded his desired outcome through weight of his reputation, but despite that, he still needed a consensus. He stacked the deck in his favour by shifting around his loyalists to positions of strategic importance. The Green Book was abandon by vote in the GAC.Steve Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13670990166576346966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-76310507883984892612018-03-05T08:05:59.730+00:002018-03-05T08:05:59.730+00:00Steve
"We certainly didn't view it as a d...Steve<br />"We certainly didn't view it as a defeat of the Provisionals". In the Trimble biography it claims that the UUP were put under intense pressure to play down the significance of what Adams was doing lest republicans don't swallow the GFA. The Provos were well and truely beaten but no-one could say it. Instead Adams was allowed to have his "victory parade" withPeterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15027470398152153427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-82274738415754008912018-03-05T07:10:12.248+00:002018-03-05T07:10:12.248+00:00Steve R,
re-read the bit about the Mitchell Princ...Steve R, <br />re-read the bit about the Mitchell Principles and the Green Book. Among many critical junctures, the overt abandonment of the Army Constitution seems a key one, and its hard to think of another person with the political capital to carry it. In terms of scorched earth, I mean infiltration of every community group (except GARC it seems), and targeted assassination of others who DaithiDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03154264514142897745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-61611612348311033272018-03-04T23:48:31.307+00:002018-03-04T23:48:31.307+00:00Peter/AM
Cheers,
Daithi,
That's a tough one...Peter/AM<br /><br />Cheers,<br /><br />Daithi,<br /><br />That's a tough one. As a Unionist I don't view it as Adams having 'delivered' the Provos, more that he had foreseen what was going to be necessary. It was a fluid time and I think pressure globally after 9/11 was probably the final straw that broke the camels back regarding the need for the IRA to decommission. We Steve Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13670990166576346966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-47274604228695570482018-03-02T16:55:05.835+00:002018-03-02T16:55:05.835+00:00It’s such an important book. Steve , Given the inf...It’s such an important book. Steve , Given the information in it, do you think the Unionist community need to reassess their hostility to Adams ? He certainly delivered the IRA for them, then scorched the Republican earth to ensure nothing else could grow in its absence.DaithiDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03154264514142897745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-8493278198188651572018-03-02T09:46:19.976+00:002018-03-02T09:46:19.976+00:00Steve,
thanks for this. Good review.
Peter,
whe...Steve,<br /><br />thanks for this. Good review.<br /><br />Peter,<br /><br />when people sometimes ask for reading recommendations on the conflict the same two books are what I refer them to. AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-30865443324023995822018-03-02T09:39:11.618+00:002018-03-02T09:39:11.618+00:00Steve
It is a great book to be sure. I couldn'...Steve<br />It is a great book to be sure. I couldn't put it down. I read it back to back with Godson's biography of Trimble. When you read them both together you realise that from the early to mid 80s the whole process was an elaborate dance of give and take to manoeuvre republicanism and unionism into a place of peace, choreographed in London with help from Dublin and Washington. It is Peterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15027470398152153427noreply@blogger.com