>>Sometimes a supporter of terrorism
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>>http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/09/donald-trump-ireland-sinn-fein-terrorism
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>I've often thought that the UK's handling of the IRA was a lesson for any country being attacked by non-state groups.
>(The word "terrorist" has ceased to have any meaning)
>If the UK had done what we did after 9/11, it would have attacked Ireland and slaughtered hundreds of thousand of civilians.
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>Instead, it beefed up its security and intelligence, pursued suspects relentlessly, got rough with suspects when necessary, and at the same time let the US open a dialogue that led to the current status.
>It's not perfect, but people aren't dying and there was no mass slaughter.

Agreeing to a large degree. Not so sure the same methods are would be working to the same degree with terrorists operating from a totally different background - starting with the ease to place informants