The feud the Irish have with the british is much older than that. I think it goes back at least 600 years. It got a good spooling up in the aught's over labor, then really spun up in the 1919 uprisings, to the point, the Irish were not interested in supporting the english war effort in WWII.
England has only recently had peaceable relations with the French. They have not been fond of each other since before 1056 if memory serves. And any reason to heat up the fight was good enough for the next millennium. clay On Sep 11, 2013, at 8:55 PM, Scott Ritchey wrote: > > > > Not so much. The Good Friday Agreement or Belfast Agreement for Ireland was > pretty recent, 1998. All Irish adults have personal memories of that > "shooting war". > > Scott > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Gerry > Archer > Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 11:17 PM > To: Mercedes Discussion List > Subject: Re: [MBZ] Factoid > > Could they be like the Irish who are still battling the British about events > > that happened many years ago? Muslims do seem to have long memories. > Gerry > >> Given the median age of the Iranian population (27 years), it's hard to >> believe events over 60 years ago have direct significance to them. Most >> of >> them were born in the current Islamic Republic. If these folks have >> heartburn about events during and after WWII, it's only because they have >> been trained to believe that way, not any actual personal experience. >> >> Scott >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Peter >> Frederick >> Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 6:44 PM >> To: Mercedes Discussion List >> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Factoid >> >> Almost all of our problems with Iran have been a result of the rather >> brutal and heavyhanded meddling we did, along with the British, during >> and after WWII. >> >> They are, after all, natural allies, since they don't want to be >> occupied by Russia, who has had it's beady eye on their natural >> resources for about 200 years, and actively been attempting to grab >> them since the 1850's. >> >> The Ayatolla was our repayment for Eisenhower's treatment of Mossedah. >> >> Peter >> >> ______________________________________ > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
