Sir, Your correspondent Mr Padraig O Cuanachain, in attacking Kevin Myers's revisionist views, asks readers if writers in America now denounce George Washington as a terrorist and a man who resorted to force and treason to disrupt the British empire?" The following quote from the English political writer James Harrington (1611-1677) may go some way in explaining why the answer is in the negative.
Treason doth never prosper:
What's the reason?
Why, if it prosper,
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None dare call it treason.
Your, etc.,
Sheraton Park,
Foylesprings,
Derry.