MRI..not for the claustrophobic

Having had one a year ago the anticipation, because of everything you read and hear, was many times worse than the actual experience, which was not so terrible but neither enjoyable. Just something which has to be done for health reasons, but which should not be feared.

BB – I think you might have guessed this thread would get the republicans out, having a rant and spouting the usual rubbish.;)

snafu – we can only hope you are proved wrong. I just wonder if the turning point has now been reached, politically and militarily.

I disagree with both of you about playing the opposition’s game for them. It’s an old argument and I have never been convinced of its merits. And this particular “conflict” is black and white.

Hypocracy indeed kev but this…

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is very illuminating…

I am now convinced he is a dreamer or a troll,nobody can be as naive as this young man surely…although ‘brainwashed’ does spring to mind,this thread is just a waste of time for all concerned.

rgds Baz …out.

It’s just student immaturity. Students need to find a cause to hang their hats on. He’s found the IRA. His history is muddled, his arguments irrational and contradictory and his passion misplaced. But he’ll grow up – they all do.

What makes you believe that, since the “struggle” of the last 60 years has failed, a continuing struggle will succeed, either politically or at the point of a gun? And who will be pointing the gun, if that’s what it comes to? Do you seriously believe that the population of Ulster, both Catholic and Protestant, would accept any further “struggle”?

I just don’t know where your misguided, irrational and irrelevant passion is born. It is certainly utterly outdated and irrelevant to the situation in 2010. Perhaps you should move to Ulster and spend a year or two there. It might make you grow up see sense.

If that’s the case then they should detach themselves from their religious label. The Irish Republicans were/are Catholic, although not exclusively so, but Republicanism was their creed. In the case of militant Islam, they are Muslims and it is Islam, or their interpretation of it for which they fight and which they want to impose on the West. Until they chose a new label they will always be seen, rightly, as Muslim terrorists.

I think that paints Clinton rather too favourably – he was a wily, scheming, devious individual but, like, Blair, highly plausible, if you didn’t dig too deep.

But that isn’t borne out by the facts either. Is it really global? In the UK the current terroist threat is still essentialy home grown, the July 7th bombers were British and it was Anglo-American foriegn policy that has helped radicalise them by creating this mythical hydra of global organised terroism (or as they saw it the demarcation of ‘them and us’, ‘west vs islam’).

How many “global terror” attacks have we had since 2001? How many foriegn terror cells have actually made attacks in western countries since September 11th? The airline shoe bomber was british, the 7th july and the later failed bombers were british, the plot to blow up airliners transatlantic 4 years ago were home grown too. The Times square bomber was a US citizen… its “global terror” because governemnts have labelled it as such, they have joined up dots that actually were not part of the same picture (maybe in the same book…)

Like Regan thought he was in a western or Star Wars I often thought that Bush thought he was in a Bond film. If Mr Bin Laden had a bald head and a white cat it would have helped.

It’s global, and justifiably labelled as such, because wherever Muslim terrorists attack or try to attack, be it Europe, USA, the Far East or Australasia the origins of the perpetrators are in the Middle East – either historically or through training camps. The leaders of Al-Qaeda originate in or are still based in the Middle East.

The pat anti-Americanism of your last paragraph is irrelevant and not even humourous.