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Originally Posted by scottbombedout View Post
With years to reflect back on Mr Adams and his ilk Doug. Perhaps a Prime Minister who was prepared to treat the IRA as a political organisation might have been better for both the UK and Ireland.

Think about the hunger strikers in the eighties. There only request was to be treated as political prisoners. Maggie stoked the troubles for years with that one.
Perhaps, my friend. Hindsight is 20/20, as they say. I suppose the PM could have done as you suggested if the IRA had stopped bombing London and stopped engaging in militant warfare in Northern Ireland.
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