Racism and Shalom

Stars and Stripes…and Shamrocks?

“…10 Clinton criticized the previous administrations with regard to the Irish question for "being too deferential to Britain, " suggesting that with the end of the Cold War, the United States could be more assertive in intervening in Britain's affairs. 11 Lynch posits that "the US government did not drift into intervention in Northern Ireland;" that the Clinton administration's policy was a distinct historical break from previous Administrations. 12 Many historians believe that Clinton's involvement was crucial to the construction of the peace agreement, and "there was nothing inevitable about [the agreement reached] on Good Friday 1998. "…”