Not unhappy? I bet they gave a sigh of relief. Moro's death remains a scandal. One of the bastards in the Brigata Rosa (Antonio Negri) was sheltered for years by the French (presumably as a favour for the right people) and returned to Italy to serve an extraordinarily modest sentence. IMHO this is as good as a confession that the Ita…
Not unhappy? I bet they gave a sigh of relief. Moro's death remains a scandal. One of the bastards in the Brigata Rosa (Antonio Negri) was sheltered for years by the French (presumably as a favour for the right people) and returned to Italy to serve an extraordinarily modest sentence. IMHO this is as good as a confession that the Italian Deep State and their friends were compromised. At the time Moro was held in captivity, Negri rang Moro's wife and taunted her on the phone that her husband was going to die.
There is no way the best (in the classical sense) ever go easy on anybody involved, however obliquely, in the murder of a professional politician (still less a head of government) unless the murder served their purposes. They are thugs at heart...and shameless. Mattei, Moro, Pasolini and so many others...they (the best and their friends) have the blood of innocents on their hands. The same was true elsewhere in the 70s and 80s especially.
IL DIVO is a great movie...I have seen portions of it and a friend born in Rome is a very great fan of it indeed. Andreotti was a sphinx with manners that would shame a gentleman...the politicians of today are guttersnipes compared to that monster.
Philip, a student of corruption in politics like you would love Il Divo. That slow dawning on Andreotti that this time around HE is the mark is extraordinary. Once Wall came down, West dumped all those people like him, the egregoius Craxi and co. Hard to explain to young folks that Berlinguer in Italy, Marchais in France were major political figures in Europe.
I must get a copy and watch it in full. The real Il Divo was way too serious and capable to enjoy the support of Turbo America on a permanent basis. The US tolerates capable clients only when they have to but when free to do so they purge them and replace them with dross.
Not unhappy? I bet they gave a sigh of relief. Moro's death remains a scandal. One of the bastards in the Brigata Rosa (Antonio Negri) was sheltered for years by the French (presumably as a favour for the right people) and returned to Italy to serve an extraordinarily modest sentence. IMHO this is as good as a confession that the Italian Deep State and their friends were compromised. At the time Moro was held in captivity, Negri rang Moro's wife and taunted her on the phone that her husband was going to die.
There is no way the best (in the classical sense) ever go easy on anybody involved, however obliquely, in the murder of a professional politician (still less a head of government) unless the murder served their purposes. They are thugs at heart...and shameless. Mattei, Moro, Pasolini and so many others...they (the best and their friends) have the blood of innocents on their hands. The same was true elsewhere in the 70s and 80s especially.
IL DIVO is a great movie...I have seen portions of it and a friend born in Rome is a very great fan of it indeed. Andreotti was a sphinx with manners that would shame a gentleman...the politicians of today are guttersnipes compared to that monster.
Philip, a student of corruption in politics like you would love Il Divo. That slow dawning on Andreotti that this time around HE is the mark is extraordinary. Once Wall came down, West dumped all those people like him, the egregoius Craxi and co. Hard to explain to young folks that Berlinguer in Italy, Marchais in France were major political figures in Europe.
I must get a copy and watch it in full. The real Il Divo was way too serious and capable to enjoy the support of Turbo America on a permanent basis. The US tolerates capable clients only when they have to but when free to do so they purge them and replace them with dross.