Sue Hartigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hi Steve:
I don't know the whole history behind this, but I did talk to an old
Irish priest, who grew up in Ireland, quite a few years ago about it.
He told me that this war has been going on for a hundred years, and that
it will probably be going on for another hundred years. There is no
simple solution to it. There is enough blame on both sides to go
around. I just wish that there could be peace, but from what I
understand about it (which is very little) feelings run deep, and
tempers run rampid. And until everyone sits down and talks this thing
out, allows tempers to cool, and feeling to be understood, nothing will
be worked out.
Sue
>
> But given the British handling of the IRA prisoners in the past I don't
> think they have much room to criticize other judicial systems.
>
> Bill
>
> Sorry to get a bit touchy Bill but there is a difference between a young kid
> and a cold blooded killer. After what happened in Oklahoma City I would
> have thought that you would have a bit more sympathy with not only British
> Solders, but the British people themselves. In Germany we had Snipers
> shooting our off duty troops at traffic lights, we had mortar attacks on
> barracks. In the U.K we have had indiscriminate bombing of shopping centers
> (Manchester) and the bombing of Canary Warf in London. These are not
> military targets I was not a military target but to the IRA it made no
> difference. How can you defend that? I understand people fighting for
> there beliefs but I have no time for them when the kill innocent civilians.
> I agree that the handling of prisoners by our country is brutal to say the
> least but there is good reason. I only hope that the attempts to bury the
> hatchet and find a peaceful solution come to a satisfactory conclusion.
>
> Steve
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