DTS, I agree completely.
The tragedy of it all, of course, is the people suffering now include a lot of people who aren't involved. Shutting off water hurts everyone and makes it hard for people to sympathize with you.
My family is Irish American, and it reminds me of a great film I just saw called The Wind that Shakes the Barley. A lot of the people getting killed in the Troubles were just bystanders, peripheral casualties, innocents.
I wish there were an easy solution, but it's hard to quell violence that involves both land and religion.
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