quick thought... August 3rd, 2006 - 2:30PM
…”Comparisons should be made with the United Kingdom’s 30-year conflict with the IRA, which resulted in the deaths of some 3,000 people, mainly living in Northern Ireland. During those years the IRA was massively armed by Libya and became the most effective terrorist organization in the world. The all-regular British Army deployed thousands of well-led and well-equipped soldiers onto the streets of Northern Ireland, in an attempt to win the hearts and minds of the people, and the intelligence services had astonishing success in infiltrating their agents into the IRA’s top echelons. Dublin was never bombed nor were the bomb-making factories in the Catholic ghettos of Belfast.”…
JAVOL!
Every few years or so I get sucked into a new multiplayer networked game and blow a ton of my free time killing things. Well, this year it happens to be Metal of Honor by Electronic Arts. Damn, this thing is addictive. With seven rotating environments and the choice between being an Ally or Nazi in World War II, my post-work | pre-gym/home time has been swallowed up by this classic shoot ‘em up.
And let me tell you, there’s nothing like sniping an English private from 100 yards to bring a smile to my face. Somebody needs to come up with an Irish Republican Army vs. England game. Or a game where the Irish peasants in 1846 strategically supply the English ruling class with rotten potatoes, making them sick and weak so they can be overrun by peasants with rakes and hoes.
I’d be all over those. So it’s not politically correct. I’d buy it. Sue me.
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