Do you mean the Brits wouldn't dream of doing the attrocities, or wouldn't dream of Goffing the perps? As to the first, the whole point is that the IRA didn't consider themselves to BE Brits.

>With all of the bombings the IRA conducted (and all the resultant deaths), my opinion (faulty as it is) is that the Brits wouldn't dream of doing that because most Brits believe they are all moral men, and each of them consider themselves too civilized to do such a thing.
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>>>Now you sound even more like the school bully!
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>>>OK, what is YOUR solution?
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>>What you said wasn't a solution - it was a boast.
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>>Now, let me see - not being a military strategist, or a CIA intelligence officer I don't know. I'd certainly say that SOME military action might be in order, but what you said originally was just localised genocide! OTOH, as has been pointed out, although terrorist cadres MAY come from these places the countries themselves haven't actually done the US harm, or declared war on you. Yet you talk about nuking them. Now N Irish perpetrated MANY attrocities on the UK mainland, and in NI, during the 70s and 80s, but we didn't go and nuke NI, or just kill ALL Catholics, or just all who no longer wanted to be part of the UK. We didn't even blow up IRA suspected buildings. THEY weren't our brothers. What would you have done there?
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>>It's a very tricky, sticky subject.