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The good friday agreement was essentially brokered by ignoring it. That seemed preferable to me to the decades of sustained bombings. It seems to me that no go
by crdoconnor 9y ago
The good friday agreement was essentially brokered by ignoring it. That seemed preferable to me to the decades of sustained bombings.
It seems to me that no government can make a fully plausible promise that they won't yield under pressure and, in any case, terrorism is extremely ill defined.
- alextheparrot 9y agoI believe the phrase is rational for and applied to ransom situations - just generally pursuing peace with opposing parties is not encapsulated in that phrase, to my understanding.
- geofft 9y agoWhat distinguishes an opposing party from a terrorist? (My answer would be, the success of their terrorism. If you are mostly unsuccessful, nobody needs to negotiate with you.)