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Troops Out
As pointed out earlier on EU and already blogged elsewhere the Romeo 12 watchtower in South Armagh's bandit country is being dismantled as I type. It seems little has changed for our Tony-appointed lord and master Peter Hain since his days in the "Troops Out" movement.
As this has been covered in detail I'll say no more than that while I fully support the normalisation of Ulster's landscape, in South Armagh as anywhere else, perhaps it would have been prudent to see if the IRA actually do "end the armed campaign" before making such a blind capitulation? Or perhaps condsider whether their buddies in the 'Real' IRA might avail of the opportunity to start a milkround-type tour of the local IRA bars? I'm not disputing the move, only it's timing.
But why bother protecting the lives of innocent people when there are terrorists to appease, eh Pete?