I'd agree with your first sentence.

Personally the areas where I'd agree with the idea of 'murdering' someone are practically at nil....For example, if we reverse the situation where the two British soldiers were murdered at that IRA funeral...I would have released those guys to go home to their families. So I'd agree that your loyalties shouldn't mean that your ethics are compromised.

The behaviour of criminals using the troubles to gain status and influence was definitely a situation that existed on both sides.

But I completely and utterly reject any equivalency at all between a British soldier's life and an IRA member's. Not one of our soldier's lives was or is worth their entire membership.

The IRA were responsible for around about sixty percent of the death during the conflict....loyalists thirty percent and the British state ten.

The loss of any innocent is a crime. The loss of a British soldier a disaster. The loss of an active IRA member....Well, that's goodbye to human rubbish.

The real hypocrisy is that the right wing press peddle the idea that Corbyn is a terrorist because he openly spoke to the IRA because he knew that they would have to be spoken to if every there was to be a peace deal. It was quite a visionary thing to do when you look back at what happened to bring about peace - a dialogue was opened with IRA and this lead to peace. I don't see this as an act of terrorism.

Meanwhile Thatcher was undertaking a real act of terrorism by sending British soldiers to train and arm Pol Pot and the Khymer Rouge with the aim of trying put them back into power after the Vietnamese had kicked them out of Cambodia (Kampuchea as it was at the time).
This was after it was known that Pol Pot was responsible for the death of thousands of people. Thatcher made it worse by blocking aid to those that had escape from Pol Pot so they starved to death or died of sickness. That is what a real terrorist does. There was no noble aim of a peaceful solution about it.

Thatcher never apologized for that. She just trusted her friends at the Sun, the Daily Mail and the Telegraph to cover it up; which they did. Fortunately other more decent publications and proper journalists didn't.

well said that man !

This interview with Andrew Neil is an absolute car crash. No wonder she won't debate, hasn't answered 1 single question.

Yes, i dont dislike her as a person, but if this is the best we can do its a tad worrying!