Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams has made the point, from Belfast to Albany and back again, that the real path to peace in Ireland lies beyond the issue of dismantling the instruments of violence and instead with eliminating the social and and economic causes of violence. He's right, of course. But he can't entirely ignore the secondary matter. His critics and adversaries won't let him.
These are crucial days for Mr. Adams and anyone else who wants to see Ireland, all of Ireland, prosper. A generation in which Catholic terrorists rather routinely killed innocent Protestants -- and vice versa -- is over, finally. This was the week when a joint Catholic-Protestant …
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