Anyone else here find it deeply ironic...

I am not trying to be snarky.
I read your title and you opening post and I still have no idea what the topic is.

I am not a mod, so my requests carry absolutely no weight, but in future threads, could you put the thread's topic in the title?
 
Ladewig said:
I am not trying to be snarky.
I read your title and you opening post and I still have no idea what the topic is.

I am not a mod, so my requests carry absolutely no weight, but in future threads, could you put the thread's topic in the title?
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In short, a Congressman that actively supported a notorious terrorist organization (back when it indisputably was one, at least) is in charge of Counter-terrorism on the House Committee on Homeland Security.

You don't find the slightest bit of dark irony in that fact?
 
Allen773 said:
In short, a Congressman that actively supported a notorious terrorist organization (back when it indisputably was one, at least) is in charge of Counter-terrorism on the House Committee on Homeland Security.

You don't find the slightest bit of dark irony in that fact?
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Sometimes congressmen take on Chairmenships because they like the perks with the job as opposed to the actual job itself.

My guess is that such a Chair would enable King to attend all sorts of good intelligence briefings while looking tough to his voters.
 
Allen773 said:
In short, a Congressman that actively supported a notorious terrorist organization (back when it indisputably was one, at least) is in charge of Counter-terrorism on the House Committee on Homeland Security.

You don't find the slightest bit of dark irony in that fact?
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Well, it sounds like he has a certain expertise.
 
Give the guy a break, he was probably confused by the name Irish Republican Army.
 
Allen773 said:
In short, a Congressman that actively supported a notorious terrorist organization (back when it indisputably was one, at least) is in charge of Counter-terrorism on the House Committee on Homeland Security.

You don't find the slightest bit of dark irony in that fact?
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Set a thief to catch a thief.
 
Allen773 said:
...that Congressman Peter King is in charge of the Subcommittee on the House Homeland Security Committee that handles Counterterrorism and Intelligence?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_T._King#Support_for_the_IRA

I guess it takes one to know one, eh? :rolleyes:
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IN the end, that is the nature of congress; one sees it also in the Anti-science folks who ended up in the House Science Committee. It will always be that way unless committee assignments were to require vetting (or an admissions exam). But who would the House turn to to make committee assignments; a committee-assignment committee?

Now, you have me thinking, what would the federal government look like if it were created from scratch in the 21st century?
 
tbh there are parts of New York, Boston and no doubt other cities with large Irish populations who would hotly dispute that the IRA was ever a terrorist organisation. Instead it was a group of freedom fighters bravely fighting off the yoke of English (note, not British) oppression.

This was most emphatically the case pre 9/11 though in the post 9/11 some (many ?) have re-assessed that position, then again many have not.
 
The Don said:
tbh there are parts of New York, Boston and no doubt other cities with large Irish populations who would hotly dispute that the IRA was ever a terrorist organisation. Instead it was a group of freedom fighters bravely fighting off the yoke of English (note, not British) oppression

This was most emphatically the case pre 9/11 though in the post 9/11 some (many ?) have re-assessed that position, then again many have not.
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Until I got better research I thought that too. Since then if I met one I would leave him unfunctional (being polite).
 
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