The quiet lessons of Northern Ireland
By Louise Richardson | Thursday, August 2, 2007 | The Boston Globe
The withdrawal of the last British troops from Northern Ireland yesterday marked the end of the longest campaign in British military history, “Operation Banner”, which lasted 38 years. In the end, the exhausting stalemate between terrorist groups from both sides of an ethnic divide and a punitive military occupying force was solved by purely political means.
The lessons for the US should be obvious and tangible, but the writer, who is executive dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and the author of “What Terrorists Want”, fears the US will learn only from its own mistakes in its own struggle against terrorism…BS
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