The IRA has formally ordered an end to its armed campaign and says it will pursue exclusively peaceful means.Proving that compromise IS possible. The IRA's shameless acts of cowardly terrorism have destroyed any legacy the IRA as a freedom fighting organization had. Most people in this country don't know the history of the IRA as a legitimate rebel group who finally gained independence for most of Ireland from the British in 1921. Notice I say "most", because the Brits decided to keep a fourth of the island for themselves, which caused the mess in the first place. Well, I mean the IRA becoming a terrorist group mess, not the Britain-ruled-Ireland-for-800-Years mess.
In a long-awaited statement, the republican organisation said it would follow a democratic path ending more than 30 years of violence.
The IRA made its decision after an internal debate prompted by Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams' call to pursue its goals exclusively through politics.
All of this just because the Irish wouldn't send soldiers for the Crusades! Because of this, the Pope, who was English, became angry and sent English troops to take over Ireland for awhile, you know, to try to get them to behave and listen to the Vatican. Only, the Reformation happened before sovereignty was returned to the Emerald Isle, and the English king, no longer obliged to listen to the Pope, decided he'd keep it for England.
Those Brits have caused so much trouble for this world. Too bad the Israelis won't take a lesson from the Irish.
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