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Flashman's Ghost
31-07-2007, 10:45 AM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6923342.stm

38 years after it began Operation Banner ends.
budda
31-07-2007, 11:01 AM
Its well over due, but its a great step. I guess it kind of shows you that insurgencies cant be won all that quickly.
Yerascrote
31-07-2007, 03:15 PM
Good news. I lived less than a 5 minute walk from that massive base in Bessbrook, it was a cunt all those helicopters flying over your house all the time. Bit of normality now thank fuck.
z-
31-07-2007, 04:25 PM
yep bit of normality sounds good to me!

who we gonna throw bricks at now tho ;)
Man Of Kent
31-07-2007, 05:19 PM
I guess it kind of shows you that insurgencies cant be won all that quickly.

:yes:

Imagaine what our current media approach would have made on Ireland in the early 70s...
Flashman's Ghost
31-07-2007, 05:41 PM
Its well over due, but its a great step. I guess it kind of shows you that insurgencies cant be won all that quickly.

Partially - but it probably also shows that you don't 'win' in the conventional sense. Winning in 1969 would have been a United Ireland or a Northern Ireland where there is still an RUC and no Sinn Fein in Govt.
budda
01-08-2007, 09:14 AM
Partially - but it probably also shows that you don't 'win' in the conventional sense. Winning in 1969 would have been a United Ireland or a Northern Ireland where there is still an RUC and no Sinn Fein in Govt.

Fair enough, winning isnt really the right term, I was just thinking of the long term nature of problems such as this. Many comentators expect western governments to just bang a few heads together and solve things like this in a few months which is just stupid.