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By the way, this quote from Joanna Burke in her study titles Men and Killing is instructive:
During the First World War, it was frequently agreed that the good soldier was the one who never took prisoners. As one military magazine put it, in 1916, �If a fat juicy Hun cries �Mercy!� and speaks of his wife and nine children, give him the point, nine inches is enough, finish him off. He�s the kind of man to have another nine hate children if you let him off, so run no risks, give him the point� � that is, the point of the bayonet. Or, in the words of Captain Guy Nightingale of the Royal Munster Fusiliers, writing to his sister on 4th May, 1915, from Gallipoli, �We took three hundred prisoners, could have taken three thousand, but we just shot the rest�.
Was that the work of the British Government? I think not...
AB ED, I've spoken, from my limited knowledge, to the Irish problem, but weren't a lot of the terrorist groups trained in Afghanistan or other Middle East locations? What do you suggest would solve the problem in the Middle East? I think 9/11and 7/7 in London are only echos of what's been going on for a number of years, going back, at least to the bombing of the Marine Barracks, killing 241 Marines... where, you ask? Why Beirut... who drove the truck carrying the massive explosive, well... an Iranian... is there a pattern somewhere in here?
I think the evidence is clear...
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