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Re: British-Christians fuel the IRA?
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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 (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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