[BREAK] Well, after a half-century of American pressure/involvement, in an area that has long been friendly to America, we MIGHT have a chance to work out an agreement between people/neighbors who speak our language and are of the same country/background/history in Ireland. I see this as boding not so well for our successful involvement with people who despise us, have no common ancestry [unless we go back to a monkey's uncle somewhere near the garden of Eden? . . . and that would only count to those, on all sides, who believe in Darwin!], don't share our views/God/tastes/culture and whom almost all have lost loved ones [or had some tortured] by us. I'm guessing that sometime around the first ship lands from our farms on Mars America might begin withdrawing her last troops from Baghdad! JB ===== [/BREAK]

Days of Decision in Ulster - New York Times Editorial Days of Decision in Ulster Published: January 26, 2007 The militant Irish republican Gerry Adams and the fire-breathing unionist preacher Ian Paisley have long symbolized the irreconcilable extremes of Ulster politics. But over the next few days, they have the chance to lead the province into a new era of democratic self-rule.

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