Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, let's examine the facts (facts are not a speciality of Irish-Americans), the IRA waged war to destroy Northern Ireland and create a socialist Marxist 32 county Irish Republic, 35 years later and thousands of widows and orphans, Northern Ireland remains fully integrated into the United Kingdom, the Irish Republic is the most successful capitalist country in Europe and is utterly uninterested in Irish unity and the IRA call off their campaign and tell their followers to dump arms.
You reckon this is a victory, please don't volunteer your efforts to beat Al Qu'eda for God's sake!
As someone who has never identified himself as an Irish-American but as an American, whose grandparents all came from Ireland, I have to say I was enjoying reading your intelligent posts, but when you make snarky comments like this, you come off as much the bigot as those you properly condemn.
You've got the facts on your side; leave out the BS bigotry (or, depending on if you're an Irish-American yourself, the self-loathing). I only mention this because I like what you've got to say and am learning a lot, so it's for selfish reasons I respectfully ask you to can that kind of stuff, which is precisely the type of partisan "ethnic" thinking that the IRA scum engaged in.