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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey
That's easy to say, but it doesn't hold up. Plenty of Americans sent money to the IRA, out of sympathy for Irish independence. Plenty of Americans have sympathy for Irish independence, but sent no support. Most Americans didn't think about it either way in their daily lives, but might have had an opinion (informed or not) if asked.
Now, knowing what the IRA did with the money, it's easy to say that the first group is just as responsible as the IRA itself, and that would be reasonable. But if your response is "screw em", and you initiate a campaign that causes some people in the first and second groups start to actually join the IRA, and gets the third group to start thinking about the IRA's cause more seriously - causing some in group three to move to groups one and two - you are worse off than you were before.
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We are seperated from Ireland by an ocean, and it is not the policy of our country to fund terrorists (conspiracy theories aside). Our citizens have the freedom to behave quite badly. Those who send money to the IRA are culpable in the crimes the IRA commits. If Ireland wants them punished, they should get the justice they deserve. If some idiot doesn't like it, and joins the IRA in protest, he is a tard, and yes, he is now as culpable as the first idiot. If a third idiot decides "hey, what's with all this anti-IRA stuff?" and decides to go down the same path, how is that Ireland's fault? Ireland should stop taking out IRA bombers because it makes idiots mad? Screw em to the nth degree.
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Originally Posted by BigV
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Killing lots of terrorists. Training Iraqis to do the same. Providing infrastructure and terrorist-killing services while leaders from the Shiite, Sunni, and Kurdish factions meet and try to come up with a constitution. Making sure that constitution doesn't allow for things like executing children while their mothers watch. Making sure it does allow for things like schooling and jobs for girls. Making the country the most inhospitable place outside of the US that a terrorist could ever hope to find himself condemned to.
Above all else, not bailing out because we're afraid the enemy might get more angry at us. Screw em.