Here's the link.

England and America didn't have any problem allying themselves with Stalin did they? And there are some pretty evil warlords in Afghanisatan who've had the backing of America. Yes, the German Empire was a brutal and militaristic one all right. But so was the British Empire - the Kaiser didn't have troops stauoned in Ireland.

There were plenty of fervent Irish Nationalists in the British Army in the First World War, and cases of mutiny when they heard about the Easter Rising even; and if they weren't singing rebel songs on the boat it would be astonishing.

My father fought in the British Army through the last war, and when he was asked once wasn't it strange that he did so, since he'd fought for the Republic in the Irish Civil War and been interned for it, he said "I've always supported the rights of small nations, even my own."