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Originally Posted by Graham F
Chris I feel you have taken my comments out of context, or maybe i didn't put it very well myself. I am in no way saying that the people that died in Northern Ireland are less signifigant and i would never say that. if it came across that way then I apologise.
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Sorry, maybe it's me that's not expressing clearly. I know you're not trying to lessen the seriousness of any loss of life, but what I think you are trying to do is suggest that the current situation is, for various reasons, of a different and more perilous nature than the Northern Ireland situation was.
What I am trying to say is that this is not true, the height of the Troubles were a very dark time ideed, and I think letting time dim the memory and the pain is dangerous because it allows people like Blair and Clarke to say we are facing something different when I do not believe we are.
Even nuclear terrorism is not a new idea. Let's not forget, Roger Cook and others were smuggling fake nuclear bombs into the Square Mile to prove a point on their TV shows long before anyone had ever heard of Al Qaeda.