Trump has badly damaged relations with Ireland says US foreign policy expert
Trump has badly damaged relations with Ireland says US foreign policy expert
No US Ambassador in Dublin, no understanding of Brexit damage to the peace process, makes Trump visit to Ireland very difficult expert warns.
By IrishCentral Staff
May 31, 2019
...”Quite frankly, I think there’s concern that the U.S. underappreciated the destabilizing role of Brexit for Northern Ireland and the Good Friday peace accord, which was such a product of U.S. leadership,” said Heather Conley, Senior Vice President for Europe, Eurasia, at the Center for Strategic and International Studies....You know, what strikes me about this – I have to go back in the record books, but the fact of the matter is we have not had a U.S. ambassador in Dublin for two years. We have a charge d’affaires
“This is extraordinary for a relationship, an Irish-American relationship that is so strong and so profound. The fact that we don’t have a U.S. ambassador to me underscores that you know, this has just been a problematic issue that we cannot seem to resolve. You know, again, bilaterally the issues are not great.
She referred also the planned demonstrations, “The demonstrations will be there. In fact, the Taoiseach was quite clear that he said in a democracy it is fine to promote, you know, demonstrations. That’s democracy in action ...and of course, that does not make the president very happy when he sees demonstrators. So it’ll be an interesting visit. But this has certainly been a fraught stop to schedule in a place where it should be quite easy to do so,” Conley concluded.
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Other Presidents faced demonstrations in Ireland.
Here is JFK in Ireland happily seeing Irish demonstrations of friendship and affection.
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It cheers me up.
