On 5 Aug 2003 07:42:17 -0700, (vince) wrote:

Jim Watt wrote in message . ..
On 4 Aug 2003 19:32:23 -0700, (vince) wrote:

"William Black" wrote in message ...
"Jim" wrote in message
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Why occupy someone elses
country against the wishes of its inhabitants ?

Like IRELAND?

And which bit of the island of Ireland is occupied against the wishes of a
majority of its inhabitants?

oooooo how clever

if you kill the inhabitants and bring in your own folks its never

"occupied against the wishes of a majority of its inhabitants?"

Vince

Like Indians, I have reservations.

People who are born in Ireland are Irish, people who pretend
they are Irish because their ancestors fled the potato famine
or the police, and settled in another land displacing its
indigenous people are more correctly called Americans

- when being polite.

nonsense. nations are characterized both by cultural descent and by
attachment to a place. Inhabiting the place is neither necessary nor
suffiient to constitute "attachment" Diasporas do not change the fact
of who is a member of the national community In the case of any
country occupied by force this is especially important.

Vince

Northern Ireland is somewhat different to Palestine and Iraq.

I see the churches in Dublin are being replaced by mosques
and the nigerians now run the protection rackets. The Tinkers
get mugged by Albanians and a Europe with open frontiers
means that Ireland now has an immigration problem.
--
Jim Watt http://www.gibnet.com