[laureldrive]

"""The American "patriots" in 1776 were terrorists to the English too. The English need to get out of Ireland and let them govern themselves. It has work for the USA."""

Substitute "America" for "the English", and "the Middle East" for "Ireland," and your justification for terrorism could havew been spoken by Osama himself. The killers of the IRA - - and the cutthroats in Afghanistan - - thank you.

[Benson_Carter]

since you're new to the discussions of Irish politics here, I'll cut you a break. Are the IRA terrorists? Yes. Have they commited atrocities against civilians? Yes.

Not too many people here will back up the actions of the IRA; it's the end we agree with and the means we abhor. However to say that the IRA and nationalist militants in Ireland are like their counterparts in the ME is irrational at best.