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  Former Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru

  July 2007

  Its well over due, but its a great step. I guess it kind of shows you that insurgencies cant be won all that quickly.

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  Former Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru

  July 2007

  Good news. I lived less than a 5 minute walk from that massive base in Bessbrook, it was a cunt all those helicopters flying over your house all the time. Bit of normality now thank fuck.

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  Former Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru

  July 2007

  yep bit of normality sounds good to me!
  
  who we gonna throw bricks at now tho

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  Former Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru

  July 2007

  budda wrote: »

  I guess it kind of shows you that insurgencies cant be won all that quickly.

  
  :yes:
  
  Imagaine what our current media approach would have made on Ireland in the early 70s...

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  Former Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru

  July 2007

  budda wrote: »

  Its well over due, but its a great step. I guess it kind of shows you that insurgencies cant be won all that quickly.

  
  Partially - but it probably also shows that you don't 'win' in the conventional sense. Winning in 1969 would have been a United Ireland or a Northern Ireland where there is still an RUC and no Sinn Fein in Govt.

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  Former Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru

  August 2007

  Flashman's Ghost wrote: »

  Partially - but it probably also shows that you don't 'win' in the conventional sense. Winning in 1969 would have been a United Ireland or a Northern Ireland where there is still an RUC and no Sinn Fein in Govt.

  
  Fair enough, winning isnt really the right term, I was just thinking of the long term nature of problems such as this. Many comentators expect western governments to just bang a few heads together and solve things like this in a few months which is just stupid.

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