more on High-tech army defeats insurgency; May I citesome examples?

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Gordon Syme <gsyme () twiceasgood net>
Date: October 5, 2005 5:04:24 AM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] more on High-tech army defeats insurgency; May I  
citesome examples?


Professor Farber,

for IP, if you wish:

On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 16:35 -0400, David Farber wrote:

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> From: "Munro, Neil" <NMunro () nationaljournal com>
> Date: October 4, 2005 4:04:53 PM EDT
>
> The Brits defeated the IRA this month
> after 25 years and roughly 4,000 deaths.

The decommissioning of IRA weapons was brought about through peaceful
means. The British did not 'defeat' the IRA, that implies they won by
force. The British and Irish governments realised many years ago that
the only way to end the problem was peaceful negotiation.

-Gordon Syme



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