Can you please enlighten me.
Bearing in mind we know what the subsequent 25 years of 'fighting' the IRA got us.
We know a form of peace only came about by mediation (and terrorism not being quite so 'cool' in America).
What would have been so bad about mediation X years earlier?
Oh I just...
Had the Government been talking to the IRA when Jezza was many thousands of lives might have been saved.
It's not like Westminster forced the IRA to a ceasefire it came about through getting round the table and making it happen.
Oh and 9/11 of course.