"...short of going toe-to-toe (on Mudcat) with the folks who live the situation everyday, my little brain can't come up with an answer that would make things peaceable."

So your 'little brain' comes up with 'answers' like "There IS no solution that won't end in continued violence"

That is not an answer, Rick. That is a piece of worthless 'gutter-press' type rhetoric, that does nothing but show the shallowness of some people.

There is a solution, Rick.
You don't know what it is, fair enough.

But because you don't know, that doesn't mean there isn't one, and were I to make un-informed, sweeping statements showing a bias about Canadian affairs, I would expect you to be somewhere in the firing party, to 'bully' and 'harass', or whatever it is people do these days that falls under those categories..

Discuss Ireland, by all means. What's stopping you?
And why would you feel the need to go 'toe to toe' with anybody on this issue? Unless you actually believe the 'no other options' theory, and are unwilling to accept that there are others.

If that is the case, then you are narrow-minded, and any discussion would prove fruitless.

B.