RE: License to....

[quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne)]

> The British (and in their day, the Empire's allies) can take the
> blame for events ranging from imperial adventures around the globe to N.
> Ireland. Who shall escape calumny?

I might grant you Hamburg, Dresden and many earlier atrocities.

But to suggest that "the British" are "responsible" for Northern
Ireland's problems requires a little rewriting of history.   The
greatest single problem Ireland has is that too many people refuse to
forget what happened three hundred and more years ago.

Incidentally, if you talk to German survivors of the war, they hardly
ever mention the great set-piece obliteration raids.  But they still
involuntarily shiver when they remember the "Tiefflieger".  After the
Germans finally lost control of the air, the Allies flew where and
when they liked.  Pilots of aircraft like rocket-firing Typhoons would
dive from 3000 feet with their engines almost windmilling, hopping
over woods and hedges, looking for anything that moved.  That is what
the survivors that _I_ met described to me as "the terror from the air".

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