You see the world through the type of rose-coloured glasses only available to older white men. cf Francis Fukuyama and the end of history.
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The left and right doing their thing, dumping on news everyone should be celebrating.pic.twitter.com/R4EIxkXJkT
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You don't honestly believe Corporate Capitalism is sustainable, do you?
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What about the Real (New) IRA? I'm just curious, my family hails long ago from what is now Northern Ireland?
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They are still around, but much less active than the provos were. The inherent difficulty in dealing with terrorists/insurgents/etc is that, unlike a formal military, leaders are relatively weak.
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It's unthinkable that a military unit could refuse to accept the end of a conflict and decide they were going to continue fighting the war anyway. Their own military would consider them traitors. Among terrorists, though, they can call themselves "true patriots" and fight on
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They are still active, not nearly to the extent that the "Provo's" were during the "Troubles". Most people in NI seemed to become quite exhausted with it all. I'm just curious as to whether the R(N)IRA is still considered that kind of group? I keep a feed to
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And the feeling still seems to be very anti-british (not surprisingly) but is very different from it was during that time. But the R(N)IRA seems to be locked into a message which flourished 40 years ago. Are they and there activities in the "last gasp" so to speak?
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In the 70's, that car might have been packed with explosives.
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Don't worry they imported dozens of new ones
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So why is Europe importing thousands of new terrorists?
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"Thousands" of "new" ones? Evidence, please.
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