hehe. A majority of people support British forces? Suuure, and most Iraqi people support liberation at the hands of America.
Alright, I can suppose that you are right with a straight face now, though really I think a majority of people in Northern Ireland just want peace, with soldiers to enforce it if need be. But let's suppose. I think that the people of a country have a right to choose their circumstances. It is not a right that is much respected, but you seem to be asking my opinion here. If in fact the people of Northern Ireland wish to be an occupied territory of great britain then they should be able to make that choice. I can see preferring military occupation to constant mutual bloodshed. Until the point where the military power is merely propping up an unjust status quo. Given the history your argument is similar to saying that those areas of the American South where Jim Crow is still the law of the land should be allowed to continue in this path because a majority of the people there want it that way. The fact is that while there is a slight majority of Protestants in Northern Ireland, Ireland as a whole is Catholic and the Protestants of the north came after the conquest. This does not mean I advocate shipping Protestants back to England; the individual Protestant was born there and has as much right to be there as the individual Catholic. It is my understanding that some progress has been made by addressing grievances, many of them very legitimate. I hope this continues and that somebody somehow manages to put some sense in the heads of the bombthrowers. What I am saying is that there are reasons for all that anger. Read Trinity, or any history of the potato famine. Do you think that we should make decisions about ethnic minorities in the United States by opinion poll??? What if a majority of people in the United States think it would be a really cool idea to summarily assassinate all Iraqui nationals currently on our soil? Would that make it right? Were the WWII internment camps a good think becae a majority of people did not oppose them? There is too much hate and ignorance in the world, and as usual it plain isnt that simple. Larry C. Lyons writes: > >see, I think that is the part you aren't seeing. Four generations later, my > >problem with your proposal is that the British still have soldiers in > >Ireland. It isn't that they used to, it's that they still do :) > > > >But this does not mean I hate the British -- I just think the shouldn't be > >in Ireland :) This position is quite possibly not typical however :) > > Given that the majority of the residents of Northern Ireland support > the presence of British Army troops, shouldn't it be the > determination of those in Northern Ireland? > > larry > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
