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“You might try reading the entire article”

Nothing in the article contradicted what I said. If someone doesn’t seize you, beat you, torture you, shoot you, seize your property, or exile you it really can’t be called brutal. These people wanted to serve Britain. They could easily have moved there after serving in the British army. Dig deep enough and you’ll discover some (just some) of these men were communists and other radicals upset that their native Ireland was not fighting alongside the USSR while Britain was.

The rule about no government support was hardly a starvation order since all of those who deserted could easily stay in Britain. And we might do the same thing if we had citizens joining to fight those who we believe had been our enemies for 800. Wait and see what we’ll do to Muslim collaborators when the time comes.

If we were invaded by China, oppressed by them for 800 years in our view, fought a low level guerilla war to free ourselves, and then had our soldiers desert to fight FOR China, how upset do you think we would be?

To many Irish patriots who suffered under British oppression it would actually be quite fitting for them to see their neighbors who wished to serve the former oppressor to go hungry wouldn’t it? After all Britain certainly could have done much more to save a starving Ireland in the 19th century. What comes around, goes around.

Only those of limited intellect or who live in a state of permanent victim hood--like the African American community who still think that slavery happened yesterday. Most people get past those sorts of historical slights.

How many American soldiers suffered at the hands of the Japanese in WW II? Who is the number one marketer of automobiles in America today?

We got over our enmity in spite of the horrendous treatment our troops received that their hands--because we had more important things to do than sit around nursing our hurt feelings and whining about how we had been treated.

By the way Einstein, I didn't call it a "starvation order," the members of the Irish Parliament called it a "starvation order." If you have a beef over that description and the effective results, then take it up with them.

But then I see fropm the rest of your post you are one of those wood-headed "Mics" who simply can't let go of the past.

No one ever accused the Irish of being geniuses. Or mature. Or capable of self-rule.