The Bush doctrine comes to Ireland

David Frum summarizes appropriately:

The London Times is reporting that the Bush administration has just banned Sinn Fein fundraising in the United States. This decision constitutes only the latest blow against the IRA’s civilian front group. Last week, President Bush refused to meet with Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams on his St. Patrick’s Day US tour. “At the White House, Gerry Adams is now regarded with the same sort of disdain as Yasser Arafat,” a senior administration official told the Daily Telegraph. In the 1990s, the US was drawn into the same moral morass in northern Ireland as in the Middle East. Terrorists were treated as acceptable partners in hopes of cajoling them into chaning their ways. Instead, the terrorists decided that terrorism pays. Now suddenly the Bush doctrine is arriving in Ireland – and Irish people are massively turning against the IRA and its Sinn Fein accomplices.

And read Mark Steyn here and here