Belfast looking beautiful and above all very calm these days-Why oh why is there still a need for 8000 troops?

Question

6000 IN AFGHANISTAN / 7000 IN IRAQ / AND FFS 8000 IN IRELAND!!-BLAIR AND HIS GOVERNMENT ARE IDIOTS-BUT THEN YOU COULD ARGUE THAT THERE NEVER WAS A NEED FOR A BRITISH PRESENCE IN THE FIRST PLACE WHICH TELLS YOU ABOUT THE CALIBRE OF PREVIOUS GOVERNMENTS,TOO!!
WHY DON'T WE BRING ALL OUR TROOPS HOME AND SET THEM ON PAEDOPHILES,RAPISTS AND MUGGERS AS THE COPS DON'T SEEM TO BE INTERESTED IN DOING ANYTHING APART FROM CATCHING SPEEDING MOTORISTS THESE DAYS!!

Answer 1

Maybe you do not remember Belfast before the troops moved in?

Answer 2

Because you can't have military policing urban neighborhoods in their home country.......have you ever heard of martial law. Do you really want the government rolling down your street with tanks telling you what to do?? If so, please don't ever come and live/vote in the US!