Your coments always amuse me MMI. I might just do exactly what you say and I know I dont own the thread, but I will ask you a serious question.
What makes two American people or other than English/Irish [I asume your are both American and I will stand to be corrected]think they can work out the whys and wheres of English/Irish politics over the troubles, when the English/Irish themselves dont know the answer? It is all very well looking at the history books and quoting whats there, but what input of your own ideas have you arrived at so far.
You have both clouded your posts with known history that is almost imposible to define your inputs from what you have learned from the history books. I have yet to figure out how the hell to quote your work to question it because of this crazy way you go about talking to each other in your own little black blob. Then again maybe that makes me stupid for being like the majority in not being good at IT.
Be well IAN 2411
A PS for you MMI, Go to Northern Ireland, and come back with nail hols in your body, and then talk to me about not writing about the IRA without some depth of feeling.