"Protestant families were burned out of houses in Catholic areas too",
Care to give examples? Any recent acts of violence towards any religious or cultural group are the results of decades of the situation I described above; in the Republic Catholics and Protestants have co-existed peacfully since the founding of the state - do you honestly believe the same can be said of the six counties?
"I will not respond to your other answers to Terribus. "
I didn't think for one moment you would.
You have persistently reduced your contribution to this debate to extremely unpleasant and somewhat inarticulate name-calling, replacing argument with invective.
You say you would like to challange my description on the partition (or on Irish history in general) yet you have refrained from doing so, though you have had ample opportunity.
Once again you have skipped around explaining why my suggestion that the whole of Ireland should have a say in the loss of six counties is 'fascist', yet yours that the general population of Britain should have no say in armed intervention is not.
I have no axe to grind in this argument. I am neither Catholic nor Protestant - an atheis in fact. I am an Internationalist, not a Republican - if anything, I am a humanitarian with a long-standing interest in history - Irish in particular.
I see a country torn apart by centuries of bloody conflict and would like to see it stopped once and for all.
I have offered my suggestions for a way this might - just might be achieved - you and your bombastic friend have offered none - except that things must remain the same because a group of carefully selected
'hell-fire-and-brimstone religious fanatics say it should.
If your symapthy is in any way genuine, I suggest you lay off your childish invective - it doesn't even make sense.
Jim Carroll