It’s a shame Mr Giraldi’s thoughtful post has been proceeded by the hateful bigotry and calls for the murder of civilians as proposed by Dimitry Aleksandrovich:

I’ll go a step further and say that I believe the Provisional Irish Republican Army was justified in it’s 30 plus year war against British occupation forces and their Loyalist allies

No British government from 1969 treated the Ulster-Scots population as allies but as a nuisance population getting in the way of Britain’s desire to leave Northern Ireland. It’s like claiming today’s pro-American government in Belgrade sees the Serbs of Kosovo as its loyalist allies when in reality Belgrade wishes they would disappear as they are in the way of the government’s ambitious objectives.

I don’t doubt for a second that if “The Troubles” were to flare up again that the Brits wouldn’t hesitate to employ drone technology to combat the IRA. They probably would avoid the use of missiles and bombs, but I don’t doubt that they would use the drones to track IRA members for British agents on the ground to intercept and or execute.>

You’re talking about Britain as if it were Russia levelling Grozny. Why did successive British governments refuse to defeat the IRA when they could’ve easily been done at any time during the Troubles? Not only that but British troops under orders from London actively prevented the Ulster-Scots from defeating the IRA before the situation got out of hand. The first people killed by British troops were were not IRA men but members of the population that Dimitry charmingly calls “British agents”. I guess that made the entire Serbian population of Krajina Serbian agents and thus legitimate targets.

Dimitry, by referring to entire ethnic groups as “agents”, has the same mindset as those neocons who don’t worry about the civilian death toll in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the Palestinian territories. Once you dehumanise an entire population it becomes much easier to support, or at the very least, ignore violence against them.

BTW Dimitry, the Provisional IRA you love so much saw the Serbian population of Krajina as the Balkan equivalent of the Ulster Loyalists. Since it is OT I’ll just leave a link with no further comments on the subject:

Outpost People

For the umpteenth time, if what you propose is true, what would you do with that information?

If nothing else it could be used to counter the haters who believe whites are to blame for the failures of others and thus should be subjected to racial discrimination through affirmative action and the “disparate impact” doctrine.