Understanding the other view

It should be framed. It's a profession, in writing, of a rare form of understanding - from someone who opposed the Iraq war but can understand why others didn't. Conor Foley:

Although I opposed this invasion I have always understood why some people backed it. Like Kouchner, I visited the Kurdish safe-haven in the mid-1990s and it remains one of the most powerful and harrowing experiences in my life. I have never been a pacifist and have always accepted that the use of force can sometimes be the lesser of two evils.

Conor could usefully apply the same level of understanding to the phenomenon of people supporting an organization but being critical of it in certain particulars. He will then have a better grasp of how longtime supporters of Amnesty International who are also signatories of the Euston Manifesto have felt able to make some criticisms of that organization without ceasing to support it - this 'because of its invaluable work'. It's something that happens regularly and in many different kinds of collectivity: political parties, university departments, chess clubs, trade unions, voluntary associations, political democracies.