David Evans wrote:

:Fred J. McCall wrote:
:
:: Yet the Americans continued to sponsor terrorism by the IRA
:: who did exactly that, demanded POW status if caught and
:: have now been released.
::
::I really don't give a tinkers damn about the IRA and Northern Ireland.
:
:Most of us don't, but there's always the UK odd sod who feels the need
:to bring them up at every opportunity as an equivalent to any bad
:thing you care to name.
:
:Most of that sort, as Mr Watt above, are unable to differentiate
:between "some Americans" and "the Americans".
:
:"The Americans" did nothing to prevent NORAID collections. That is
:tacit support.

So the IRA was supported by the British (who also did nothing
effective to prevent various collections of funds in various places
and hence must also have been in tacit support)?

See what happens when you start trying to stretch reality to make an
incorrect statement on your part correct?

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"Some people get lost in thought because it's such unfamiliar
territory."
--G. Behn