Here's a nice Washington Post article which describes, among other things, US pro Irish-republican ignorance of the politics of Sinn Fein.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1987/03/22/irish-troubles-american-money/593e3941-826e-4719-bc79-8eb528f8ac70/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.1287634d022e

I won't bother addressing Jim's recent denials within this thread that he did say what he said what he plainly said earlier in this thread because I think this is just a tactic he uses rather than an honest statement. It is all of a piece with his denials that he ever insults people, which are so blatant that they often occur in the same post as a lot of insults.