Military Neutrality
Dail Éireann — 2023-05-16
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Mick Barry (PBP), Cork North-Central

No predetermined outcomes - I believe the Tánaiste when thousands would not. I will start with a quote:
An examination of these cases reveals that the United States had very good reasons to object to the governments of Chile, Cuba and Nicaragua. Their ideological orientation was inimical to its own, so it supported local groups that used whatever means were available to them to try to bring them down.
These are the words of Louise Richardson, dame commander of the most excellent order of the British empire. They are words that might be used by an attorney to justify the actions of US imperialism in Central and Latin America, which, let us recall, included support for the killing of tens of thousands of people, at the very least. Why has this person been chosen to chair the Government's consultation forum on international security policy in June and to write the official report at the end of the forum's proceedings?

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Sitting date: 2023-05-16