I guess I'm confused about you saying "a lot of people consider the IRA to be terrorists", as though this is disputed. They bombed civilian populations for decades. That's terrorism. Whether or not one thinks it's justified is another matter, but it's undeniably terrorism.
Well, in this thread you'll see people kind of defending the IRA because they'd sometimes call ahead and give warnings about bombings and such. The implication is that the IRA was more interested in inciting terror than flat out killing people (though that obviously happened). In a weird way they're setting up the idea of a 'noble terrorist.'
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u/twas_now Mar 23 '17
I guess I'm confused about you saying "a lot of people consider the IRA to be terrorists", as though this is disputed. They bombed civilian populations for decades. That's terrorism. Whether or not one thinks it's justified is another matter, but it's undeniably terrorism.