There is a clause in the Good Friday agreement that states Northern Ireland can join the South if the people so wish. A typical Tony Blair fudge and one day we will have the Royalists fighting to remain in the Union. I agreed with Enoch Powel who stated that it must be made clear that Ireland would never be united no matter what the IRA did, thus negating the IRA's reasondetre. In my opinion there is too much forgiveness of evil in this world and the SAS should have been allowed to wipe out the IRA together with McGuiness.
Do you read the Daily Mail by any chance John ?
I'm pretty sure that the ONLY thing that you and I agree on is that Morgans are great cars.
There is no such thing as a purely military solution to this sort of problem. If you can't see that there is significant blame which can be laid at Britain's door for the Irish troubles, then you clearly don't know much about Irish history. Eight hundred years of oppression does have a price to pay.
May I suggest as a starting point that you read "God's Executioner", Michael O Siochrú's book about Cromwell's genocide and ethnic cleansing in Ireland, and also "The great hunger" Cecil Woodham-Smith's account of the famines. You might start to understand where the anger comes from.
