Tuesday, July 03, 2007  A faraway country of which we know
nothing  So Northern Ireland's Deputy First Minister Martin
McGuinness luvs the job that the US Special Representative for
Northern Ireland, Paula Dobriansky, is doing --  "The energy and
drive that Paula has brought to her position is quite exciting
and very convincing. It's not an act. She's really determined to
do something," Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness told me.
[Irish Times reporter, subs. req'd]  It's a shame that Martin is
not reading more widely because Dobriansky is one of the drivers
of a key American policy towards Iraq: one which denies the
existence of refugees from that conflict in the conventionally
understood sense of people who are not going to be able to
return home for a long, long time. Instead the US maintains the
fiction that even the millions of Iraqis abroad are merely
"displaced" and can return home just as soon as that Surge
succeeds, which could be any month now. Or as she says herself
--  “We are committed to wor