Mike Scott Rohan
To judge by previous exchanges here, you needn't apologise too profusely. The current line for extremist republicans is "Of course I don't approve of the IRA's methods, *but*..." That routine denial made, they're free to parrot the IRA version of history, invented to greenwash those methods. All carefully obscuring one awkward little truth -- the IRA's means and the IRA's ends are one and the same. Terrorist weapons kill completely innocent people, because they're meant to; they don't work otherwise. But speaking that magic line transforms these people from blinkered racist fanatics to saddened observers. In their mirrors, anyhow; and they're not given to looking anywhere else.