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Subject: 
Re: British-Christians fuel the IRA?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date: 
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:
> > 
> > > 
> > > 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.
> > 
> > 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?

Not really.  England took Ireland by force.  Not much else to say.

> 
> 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.

> 
> 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 (...) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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