The one retort that I’m sure Sanders and the editorial staff will fall back upon is the Omagh bombing. Like the current bombings this one was done without warning and killed 29 people.
However, this bombing was done by a fringe splinter group of the IRA and was condemned by both sides. The disgust of the idea of killing civilians helped cement the Good Friday agreement and peace in Northern Ireland.
I expect a retraction of this article at the least and a public apology by Mr. Saunders. It is again either willfully malicious or incredibly uninformed. To prevent myself being tarred as some Irish Catholic demagogue, I have zero connection to the conflict. I am simply a history buff who despises media’s flawed comparisons to the current reign of terror to other periods. If anything my sympathies lie with the Unionists.