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Recent ill-timed blunders (including the failed attempt to assassinate a Hamas leader) have derailed the peace process.
I don't want to psychologize, but clearly he simply found himself unable to manage this large and difficult subject, floundered, and grasped onto a series of unwise devices that derailed the project--of which the fictional narrators are only one, and not the most disastrous.
Until personal problems temporarily derailed him in 1987, he was well on his way to high political office and all the rewards that brings in later life.
In the same piece, he traces savvy to Portuguese, which might be correct, but Mencken's American Language derives it from the Spanish sabe . Professor Kaye's nuance word is, at a guess, a suggestion from a word-processor's spelling checker which was derailed by nonce word .
Regarding Omagh, Britain's Sunday People said that last year's bombing by the splinter group Real IRA could easily have derailed the peace process, but "the desire for peace was too strong for one breakaway IRA group to torpedo it.