If the IRA crashed a plane into Canary Wharf and the Irish government supported and sheltered the IRA before and after the attack and named an IRA leader to an inportant government post then I think British military oporations on Irish soil would be justified.
Ireland isn't harbouring the IRA in the same way that the Taliban is harbouring Al Qaida.
Hmm. The IRA call themselves an army. THey've killed about 350 civilians, I believe, and about 130 troops. Thousands wounded. They were, until the most recent steps in the peace process (now blocked by the IRA refusing to consider disarming), explicitly supported by the Irish constutution, laying claim to NI. [Heaven only knows why]. They've bombed the British Cabinet, in government; they've assassinated members of the Royal Family (what would Bush do if his uncle were explicitly killed by Bin Laden, pray?); bombed the Baltic Exchange - smaller than WTC, but the same purpose and symbolism; and bombed a Remembrance Day ceremony, among others. And they've been explicitly sheltered and funded from Eire, with the connivance if not the active aid of state officials. They've also been funded and armed by Libya, Syria and the USSR, among others.
We've got proof of all these. They've boasted of most of them. Way, way more evidence than you have against Bin Laden, still less the Taliban, or for war against Afghanistan itself.
So, will you back us when we go in 'unilaterally'?
BTW, the US refuses to extradite IRA, ETA and Israeli terrorists wanted for murder - one Israeli is wanted for killing two Irish UN peacekeepers in Lebanon, he's now living happily in Denver - this gonna change any time soon?
Or is it only terrorists who kill Americans that get you keen on justice and in favour of revenge? |
