"Legitimacy does not come from the barrel of a gun.

On occasion it very much does, on others people believe that it does ask the Taliban and those who support the view that they were ever the "legitimate" rulers of Afghanistan.

It is our adherence to principle and law that makes us better than the terrorist.

Really? They (the terrorists) too adhere to their "principles" and their "laws" as they see them. Being involved in the legal profession you mistake law for justice, I can buy law to escape justice if I have enough money and the right connections (There have been numerous cases that demonstrate that the world over)

You seem to want to be a terrorist.

That differs from your stance on Ireland, does it not?

Most certainly not!!! I hold ALL terrorist organisations in equal low regard, they are ALL simply murdering self-serving scum in my book - You do not reason with a snake or scorpion, you do not try to change it's nature or behaviour - You kill it.