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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 06:22:54 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> 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?
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> 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?
Not really. England took Ireland by force. Not much else to say.
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> 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?
The evidence certainly seems to suggest that that is not the case in
Northern Ireland.
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> I really have no idea what is right in this case.
There is no easy answer, especially when such a high level of animosity has
gone on for so long with so many issues to resolve with so many entrenched
powers not wanting to resolve them.
-->Bruce<--
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| (...) 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 (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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