Quote Originally Posted by spikeontheright View Post
McGuinness is a very interesting subject.

Only someone like him, who had been in his position and done the things that he did, would have been capable of taking the majority of Sinn Fein/IRA with him into the peace process.

The families that have lost loved ones in any terrorist activities he was involved in must have found it very hard to see him in a position of power within British politics, but if the British government had refused to deal with him, there would almost certainly have been more innocent people killed.
Nigel Havers was on R4 yesterday almost in tears because someone had compared McGuinness to Nelson Mandela... I'm not sure if Mr Havering is, or was, aware of the history of NM, but the backgrounds are very similar apart from the fact that Mandela was a posh boy whereas McGuiness was an erse-oot-yer-troosers croppie. Both involved in terrorist acts, both heads of parts of organisations that murdered civilians and bombed property with the intention of causing death or injury.
It would seem that one man's terrorist truly is another man's freedom fighter...