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Entry: Taking Back Our Children Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/taking_back_our_children#4905 Post contents: @John Yep. About your dinner partner, Brendan Behan had it right "Other people have nationalities, Jews and Irish share a psychosis." That's why I admire Eamon de Valera. He took a nationalism which had the potential of being as vicious as nazism (and they shared the same roots), and by the means of a quasi fascistic party, managed to forge a civilized nation. Imagine Alcide de Gasperi in the Thirties wrestling Benito Mussolini for control of the Fascists, getting it, and using the Fascists as a basis for a democratic state, and you get the idea. (I actually wrote an Alternative History scenario in which Eamon de Valera grows up in Spain insted of Ireland and therefore a) in Ireland Michael Collins becomes a dictator and allies himself with Hitler b) there is no Spanish Civil War, only a very long and peaceful de Valera regime and c) irritated by being called the Italian Collins, Mussolini does not join the Axis (Berlin, Dublin, Tokyo), and is one of the Allies, with the result that twenty years later Fascism is a very respectable political option, the term of derision being "Fenian" with someone commenting that a Fenian is a Fascist with a couple screws missing). Sent at: 2008 08 29