Why was the IRA less of a threat than Islamist bombers?
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From Iraq to anti-terror legislation and Turkey's exclusion from
Europe, we are turning the clash of civilisations into a reality
Polly Toynbee
Tuesday September 20, 2005
The Guardian
The political season opens in an air of bizarre unreality. This is a
country at war and yet that war hardly features, even among Liberal
Democrats. Political outrage or simple horror is lacking. Last week
hundreds were massacred in one bloodbath after another. British
military dead now number 95, not quite enough to get army mothers
camped outside Downing Street - but 70,000 British soldiers have
endured a heart-sinking tour in Iraq, seeing the blood, brains, guts
and limbs daily littering the streets. Because no one knows what to do
next, there is a remarkable absence of political recrimination.
Polly Toynbee
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