RE: British withdrawal from Northern Ireland
You can all read some info about operations that take place against republican AND loyalist groups in books. These are however not accurate(for obvious reasons) and it is only the well known figures, which are in fact known at all.
The fact remains that whilst much of the british empire was colonial, Northern Ireland is not. It is our territory. Therefore there is no question that without a complete role reversal of home policy by the british government, sovereign territory will be defended by this country, from any external or internal threats.
That is why we will stay in Ireland,and never agree to how Republican movements wish to have the country run.
Some time ago you may have seen on TV, pictures of paramilitary groups disarming. This is however basically a token gesture, and does not show a majority of the paramilitary groups capability. It is more than likely that these groups deliberatly polled themselves to sift out the old/broken/suspect tagged weapons to hand into the security forces. There are at least two 50 cal sniper rifles that are still not accounted for, brought in from America. If Libyan assistance is anything to go by, one of the captured hauls had thousands of AK47’s.
What happenns if we do absolve ourselves of the situation in Northern ireland???
What happenns if we completely pull out of Northern Ireland?
For a start you’ll have an ‘immigration problem’ if you will. All those loyalists, who suddenly fear for their own safety are going to be wanting to go somewhere to get away from the republicans….. where? across the irish sea to liverpool, scotland and holyhead.
how do we control this?? we have enough of a problem with blind frenchman denying they are unable to stop refugees crossing the english channel via euro tunnel. British people here ,and some others will be well aware of the trouble and money needed to deal with this displaced population. so we can add possibly a hundred thousand more people to that problem, who will all need re accomodation, jobs, benefits, milk coupons…etc etc etc.
This is simple for an outsider, detached from the realities of this situation to find acceptable.
Should we pull out of northern ireland, its likley that the republicans will have a field day, setting up there own parliament and basically increasing sectarianism amongst the public.
Any one who thinks that peaceful harmony can be established if the uk security forces are pulled out are seriously misguided, and should wake up and smell the coffee. The increased bloodshed that the complete removal of british forces from NI could create is unimaginable.
Is Southern Ireland going to take responsibility for Northern Ireland with all of their problems?, do you seriously think they can be arsed to do this? do they have the money to do this? do they have the will power to do this?…..honestly?….no they havent. They arent especially interested in the slightest about the northern ireland ‘problem’ in the whole of the modern day troubles Eire has made few if no major moves to help resolve the paramilitary conflict. they have tried to crack down on smuggling across the border, other than that, they havent done very much. British or NI security forces need to seek permission to follow a chase of a ‘suspect’ terrorist into southern ireland, this is a lengthy time consuming process which inevitably means the loss of the ‘suspect’ terrorist. smuggling across the border is extremely easy, as those who read ‘bandit country’ will know. Prominent members of the Southern Armagh brigade own land that is both on northern irish soil and Eire Soil. as you can imagine smuggling across the border is hugely facilitated if you can drive across private farmland with the goods you are smuggling, under the cover of a bogus company set up.
These boundaries are soo poorly defined, (as with most countries) that more than one squaddie has been left on southern irish soil with his weapon, and arrested by the guarda for owning a lethal weapon!
Pulling out of Northern Ireland will also remove prime locations for inserting covert security forces multiplying the difficulty in logistics and money/manpower in inserting these vital assets.
Not being in Northern Ireland also reduces the ability to observe these paramilitary forces and gain intelligence on their modus operandi, and the people working for them. An increased need for covert operations would be required to maintain this intelligence…somthing that cant be taken from satellites.
And finally perhaps……we will get a further reduction in our armed forces…..NI is one less problem to deal with, which is no longer taking up such and such amount of equipment/time/people..so we dont need to keep that amount. AS i believe the shortsighted government think.
that is until the republicans decide to launch a new regime of attacks on the british mainland, and it is found expedious to redeploy to Northern Ireland for perhaps a greater escalation in conflict than seen in that country for nearly 90 years. This is a problem the Israeli’s are finding themselves having to deal with…and look at the trouble they get for that, and they arent hugely successful all the time. This, for the UK is an untenable position.
coanda
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