kennyrester said:
Your comparison between The Falklands and NI is ridiculous. In the Falklands 99% of the population want to remain British citizens. Not so in NI. They're totally, totally different situations and it's not contardictory in the slightest to admire her actions in one and not the other.
Finally, I don't really understand your first paragraph listing various historical events. The post you quoted didn't lay the blame for everything the British empire did in Ireland at Thatcher's door, just what happened under her. |
Yes fewer people are dying which i am glad of. Nobody needs to die because of cultural differences. And to not give in to the IRA would have been bloody and disasterous. Concessions had to be made but the Good Friday Agreement was a disgraceful piece of legislation that allowed terrorists to stand for parliament. Released prisionere who should still be rotting. So your saying that terrorism should be the way forward? Lay down your arms and move to politics instead? Tell me what your thoughts are of an IRA memorial statue being erected in Crossmaglen of bombmaker Sean O'Callahan? Attended by Sinn fein representitives who campaigned to have it payed for by British taxpayers money to the cost of £30,000. But in the same breath they call for British soldier memorials to be taken down because they are antagonistic. Or the calls for the renaming of the Royal Victoria Hospital? Yes, Good Friday brought its peace by putting the terrorists in power. And its a fragile peace at that.
A majority of Northern Ireland also wish to remain part of the UK. Its not 99% but its a majority. Hardly a ridiculous comparision of fighting for British land.
My point about historical events is explained when you take the original posters words into context. Claims that she acted like the British Empire and opressed the people throigh the Army were not true. Yes it has happened before but it wasnt under her. That was my whole point.