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Sorry, but pointing out what went wrong in one case is not the same as
making it right in every case. There may be, as you say, parallels,
but to suggest either that a solution to the 'Irish Problem' was
simple had there been a political will or that one can extrapolate
from that to Moslem extremism is naive in the extreme.

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It is fairly well accepted here that it would not have been so very hard
to deal with Provo. I've yet to hear a convincing argument from any
party of why it wasn't made so however. It may be a feature of middle
of the road democratic systems.

Naive I'm not and I am only saying there are three things (amongst many)
that could be done or done more effectively. Massive pressure on certain
overseas governments. Internment/expulsion of those who give active
*and* passive support (1). Significant travel restrictions based on
generic profiling.

One might throw in some fairly heavy pressure on internal ethnic
communities to monitor themselves a bit better, though I think this
might be happening anyway.

None of it is very nice or remotely desirable but in extremis...

'Hog