Richard Baker wrote:
>
> Julia said:
>
> > The thing is, Texas has more to lose by leaving the US than it has to
> > gain, and most of us understand that. The parallel doesn't quite work.
>
> Okay, choose some other state. I was just trying to make people imagine
> how they might feel if a foreign Israel was set up in the Palestinian
> US. I'd imagine quite a lot of Americans would be rather upset about
> the whole thing, and try to expel it, and keep trying to do so for
> decades using whatever methods are available. Furthermore, many would
> continue trying to do so long after it became apparent that the
> destruction of the new state wasn't possible.
Thing is, in the US, Texas is probably the *best* state for your
example. It just isn't anywhere extreme enough for what you're trying
to get at.
> (I'm not picking on America: the same thing would probably happen in
> Britain and many other countries too.)
What are your thoughts, opinions and feelings on N. Ireland? From where
I sit, that might be a better parallel, at least in terms of the whole
tit-for-tat, or WHOMP-for-tat, thing that I'm seeing with respect to the
Palestinians and Israelis.
Julia
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