@izzythepush,
Quote:America didn't seem overly concerned about terrorist attrocities by the IRA. Noraid didn't have a lot of problems raising money in America.
We happen to have a large population that descended from Irish Catholics who came over here to get always from the very evil/bad treatment the British Empire gave them for hundreds of years.
We even had whole units of them fighting both for the North and the South sides during our civil war.
In any case you had created this mess or your ancestors had done so and it is hard for the US to take your side beyond trying to be good faith peace brokers as too large a percents of our population have long and personal family memories.
No the actions of the IRA bombings is not justify in any sense of the word but then neither is one hell of a long list of actions your nation had taken up to the police state you not that long ago imposed on Northern Ireland trying to deal with the problem by brute force.
I had been sad and surprised to hear that this problem is still not completely solved.