Penetrator wrote:
Jepeto87 wrote:
Ha im in Crumlin Dublin at the moment. I think you should have left a long time ago (Back in the 70's) and been replaced by some impartial U.N force, in a perfect world I suppose!
Hate to tell you, Crumlin is in Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland... Dublin, however, is in Ireland...
The Army were asked by the people of Northern Ireland to step in and help back in 1969, and the situation has been too volatile for a safe withdrawal. The draw down to normalisation has been a task for both the Army, and the IRA. The IRA decommision weapons, we ease up in South Armagh, known in the trade as "Bandit Country. the IRA promise to stop blowing shit up, we stop shooting people.
Nice use of green for your posts ...irony anyone?
Nothing personal against you mate but I don't feel the army had any right to be there in the first place. It's not anyone of this generations fault, the blame lies with the politicians who elected to begin a plan of plantations in Ulster years ago in an attempt to secure the British grip over the area. The Protestants and Unionists that live there now cannot be and should not be expected to leave, it is their country now too but it is just sad that the imperialist mindset of the British back then has led to so much pain on both sides in the ensuing years. I believe that in the near future if Britain accept the Euro as their currency the border will become entirely imaginary in terms of the day to day lives of most people and with power sharing already in place we can move forward as one ...a united Ireland but not as we know it!