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Originally Posted by mbthegreat
Well, it was a "holy war" I suppose, the route of the problem is religion, so there is that count, the IRA was the militarised arm of Sinn Féin, the repbulican political party, although they didn't make a secret of it, so I don't know if that counts. Its stated aim was to overthrow northen Ireland and set up a unified state, so yeah it was using violence to take over other nations (or in this case a part of another nation).
Money did come from big people within the states, and the American government has never recognised it as a terrorist organisation, which could be seen as tantamount to supporting it.
Therefore the USA and EIRE are now members or mbthegreat's "Axel of evil doesers"
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No it does not compare. The US government never supported openly or hiddenly the IRA, and never helped them by money or information to blow up British soldiers and Irish civilians. Also, the IRA never followed the cause of turning Europe and America Irish, and they never were a threat to do so to Germany or France or Asia or you name it. Also, the IRA had a political goal concenring the British and Ireland, they did not follow a way to establish their relgion in other parts of the world, nor did they base on a religious figure that had told them they must subjugate other nations that had nothing to do with Ireland at all. It was a local conflict along the break lines of an old religious rivalry of the local residents in that region.
You try too hard to construct a parallel so that you can use it for the comparison you want to give here, but your constr,ruction is bent, and not tight, so that it does not hold together.