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Originally Posted by A Few Acres of Snow
I think we can all agree the comparison of the England’s role in Ireland to the Turks role in the Balkans is of almost no value. The relationship between the Serbs, Croats and Bosnian Muslims is far closer to the Irish and British case. The frontier between the Roman Catholic world and the Eastern Orthodox world ran through your part of the Balkans in the same way that the frontier between the Protestant and Roman Catholic worlds runs through Ireland.
It not an abstract argument for me at all, I have had this conversation with close relatives around the dinner table for years and I can tell you things are going in the right direction. More and more people can see that sharing a national government with the rest of the Irish people would be the best choice for northern Protestants. Tony Blair has done more for Irish unity than some of the men given monuments in Dublin!
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I'm quite sure it is not an abstract argument for you and for those in your part of the world and I'm pleased to read that you feel matters are headed in the right direction. If a majority of the northern Protestant community want a power-sharing arrangement with Dublin and they vote for it, then naturally that is what they will get and if they are happy with it, good luck to them. I am arguing from a far more abstract position and mostly from a legalistic one. Good luck.