The IRA is a COMMUNIST ORGANIZATION. Why does no one ever point this out?
It does not reach cognition. As an Irish American with enough Irish blood to still have cousins in Co. Cork, the idea that the "Troubles" were instigated by assistance of Moscow to Belfast Marxists in 1969, just does not sink in to most Americans, let alone the Irish, or Irish Americans. Jerry Adams is every bit as evil as "Uncle Joe". Adams flag is red with a hammer and sickle, not blue with a harp, but this contradiction goes over every ones head. When the Soviet Union folded I bet an Irish friend that the IRA will seek peace while it seeks new funding, then begin the terror again. It's a bet I wish I'd lost.
So it's a pint to Bush for snubbing Adams and a head dunking in the loo for Clinton letting Adams in the White House.
While Britian has become a politically correct communist country where it's citizens have no rights to privacy, nor rights to defend themselves, with an insanely high tax rate to boot.
I am just putting everything in context.
For the most part for the last ten years or so, the IRA has been playing nice, the main sticking point being the UK government wants the IRA to give up all their weapons, but given the UK government's treatment of it's own citizens right now, I can see why the IRA has not done so.