"tim gueguen" wrote in message news:bX%ic.260994$Ig.101272@pd7tw2no...
Your way didn't work too well in Northern Ireland.

You mean that place they sent the Army into.


Good point. The US Army certainly does not patrol my neighborhood,
city or state. No need to.

Because no part of the US has had a bunch of terrorist bombers running
around blowing things up for years. If say one of the militia groups had
engaged in a sustained and effect campaign of terror in Michigan you'd see
soldiers patrolling the street there as well.


For the better part of a century? : )

And Northern Ireland is part of an island, Michigan is not. This
should have made the job much easier for the British government, but
they are simply bad policemen.


US has never had a terrorist group as operationally effective as the IRA


The British called Washington's Continental Army a terrorist group.

The IRA was successful mainly because the numbskulls of the British
security forces were so ineffective. To this day, their strategy in
Northern Ireland still has no clear objectives.