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Re: British-Christians fuel the IRA?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 29 Nov 2002 04:14:48 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
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> > Note that I shan't deny that various Americans of whatever stripe(1) fund
> > various terrorist and paramilitary groups (with their own personal funds, it
> > should be noted) on both sides of the NI conflict.
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> Hey, what's wrong with trying to throw out a foreign occupying force?
Nothing, if that's what it is. What actually happened here? The conventional
answer is that England took Ireland by force, right? Isn't it a lot more
complicated than that?
I dunno, haven't done research in depth but aren't we in some cases talking
about 800 years of occupation and the occupiers turning into the same people
as the occupied?
I really have no idea what is right in this case.
> Rather see them do it Gandhi/King style, though. Blowing up baby carriages
> just hurts their own cause (kinda like the Palestinians).
Genau. (exactly)
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| (...) Not really. England took Ireland by force. Not much else to say. (...) The evidence certainly seems to suggest that that is not the case in Northern Ireland. (...) There is no easy answer, especially when such a high level of animosity has (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Hey, what's wrong with trying to throw out a foreign occupying force? Rather see them do it Gandhi/King style, though. Blowing up baby carriages just hurts their own cause (kinda like the Palestinians). -->Bruce<-- (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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