What the heck do you think British Troops have been doing in N. Ireland for decades?
There were staging military patrols in Belfast for years during the height of the IRA. The British SAS was assassinating IRA leaders, in places like Gibraltar and elsewhere.
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And they still have security surveillance towers between Ireland and the North, as well as 19,000 troops stationed throughout the Protestant north:
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(Note this is from Sinn Fein, the IRA political leadership).
Btw, please note that George Mitchell, who was instrumental in bringing both sides together to hash out a peace treaty, is ALSO the man who has issued his report on how to bring the Israelis and Palestinians to the peace table.
And yes, if the IRA were to start lobbing mortar shells and artillery from the nation of Ireland, I would theorize that the Brits would demand that it cease. And if Ireland did nothing ot prevent such acts of terrorism and military hostility, the Brits would have to assume that Ireland's complicity for such violence would justify their crossing the border and rooting out the terrorist arms caches and infrastructure.
If Mexico or Canada were permitting such activities to take place against the US, I can hardly see us not taking action.
Fortunately, the local Mexican authorities limit their activities to drug running and shipping their excess population to the US.
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