While you're rolling around laughing there Marcia. I agree with John. You have to give people something they don't want to lose.

As I already told John, this is a gross over-simplification.

What brought it to an end was the final realization that they would never gain popular support by continuing to slaughter innocent people. They had been doing this for thirty years and were no nearer to their goal of a united Ireland than when they started. The bombing at Omagh in 1998, although not carried out by the mainstream IRA, aroused such universal condemnation that there was really no alternative but to seek a political solution.

The only difference between the IRA and the muslim extremists is the level of fanaticism. Muslims are not afraid to die for their cause which makes it far more difficult to defend against them. IRA terrorists would never risk their own lives to set off a bomb, using remote and timing devices to detonate.