Proone
Thanks, good reply despite clear differences of opinion which neither of us will resolve on this or any other forum?
I remember the "whispers", but as always it depends on who is doing the whispering and the IRA propaganda machine beats even New Labour spin into a cocked hat.
I think we beat them at their violent game in a very dirty war, and the American reaction to all forms of terrorist murder after 9/11 certainly removed a very important, emotional prop from under their feet but we lost the propaganda war and the so called higher ground on bad political calls.
I saw the look on McGuinness' face after his bollocking in Washington and the wily bas
d still managed to wangle massive concessions from Mowlam, Short (calling for a military withdrawal from NI?), Reid, Mandelson
, Blair et al