A QUESTION FOR MY AMERICAN FRIENDS
Because of 9/11, most Brits supported the war in Afghanistan. I am in a minority in also supporting the war in Iraq. I believe that those who befriend, train and finance terrorists deserve to be punished.
Yet when I look back a few years to when Belfast, London, Manchester, and Birmingham city centres were all devastated by IRA bombs, and very many innocent people slaughtered over a period of years, I recall that the IRA ran regular fund raising events in the USA, without which the IRA would not have been able to continue to maim and kill.
Is there not a degree of hypocricy here, and an unpleasant stench ? Sure, the Catholics in Northern Ireland were suffering from unofficial discrimination, but not to the same extent as black people in the USA. for example.
Americans are being extremely supportive over the recent London bombings, which is much appreciated, but what was their attitude when the IRA were blowing up bars and shops full of innocent people ?
What do you think ?
It stinks of hypocricy, as does the American support for the Israeli terrorists, the American support for Osam Bin Laden when he was fighting the Russians in Afghanistan, the American support for Saddam Hussein when he was fighting the Iranians..........