Frankly, I thought this would be perfectly obvious, so did not need to be explicitly stated: My intention was to underscore that criticism of the ex-FM from the

Frankly, I thought this would be perfectly obvious, so did not need to be explicitly stated: My intention was to underscore that criticism of the ex-FM from the sidelines should be tempered with the knowledge that there are intractable problems here which he was genuinely attempting to solve. That this might be taken to imply that the long-dead author of the quote which I used for its poetry somehow endorses a position in contemporary political debate is so obviously absurd that I cannot imagine a HN reader doing so.