{"id":836,"date":"2005-07-28T22:54:25","date_gmt":"2005-07-28T22:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:09:16","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:09:16","slug":"ira_dumps_weapo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=836","title":{"rendered":"IRA Dumps Weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m sitting in my hotel room in Derby (pronounced “Dahby”), listening to the BBC News discuss today’s announcement that the IRA has announced an end to terrorist attacks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s an interesting – and hopeful – piece of news. They have been running down the history of IRA violence since the 1970’s, and point out that over 3,000 people were killed in the IRA conflict. I hadn’t thought of it as being that deadly, thinking more of the polite warnings before bombs were set off in London in the 1980’s.<\/p>\n

The interesting question, obviously, is the effect of 7\/7 and 7\/21 on this decision.I’ve been dining with my co-workers – part of the reason for my trip is to take the folks here out and get to know them. They’re young information workers, hip, liberal, anti-war marchers almost to a man.<\/p>\n

And the bombings have made them quite willing to see the Muslim community in the U.K. placed under close watch; the radical imams deported or jailed, their anti-Western mosques closed, and their disaffected young followers deported – or jailed. Political correctness? Fuggedabout it. Civil rights? “What about the civil rights of the victims?” they reply.<\/p>\n

This is a big deal. The political cost of terrorism just went up. I think the IRA just did the math and decided that a change was necessary.<\/p>\n

It’s never been free…note Hammes’ book<\/a> talks about this loss in his discussion of the second Intifada… but somehow I’m wondering of the cost hasn’t gone up dramatically.<\/p>\n

I’d always assumed that the IRA had been badly weakened by 9\/11, as much of it’s financial base in the 70’s and 80’s was in the American Northeast. And I can’t believe that the donations were as forthcoming in October.<\/p>\n

It’ll be interesting to watch and see how tis plays out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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