re: Major Step Against Mick Terrorists
The Brits still deeply hate the Americans for their decades of complicity in fund-raising and other financal support from the US Irish community to fund terrorism back in Northern Eireland.
Only when 9/11 showed that the US was not safe did we suddenly get the religious fervour for a crusade on terrorism. The Uk had been struggling for years with this evil problem, with very little support and considerable obstruction from the other side of the pond...