Originally Posted by helterskelter808

I doubt most Americans even knew enough about Northern Ireland to turn a blind eye to it. We did, however, provide safe harbor to numerous IRA terrorists.

So while we think nothing of demanding the extradition of British nationals who commit the heinous crime of linking to stuff on the internet or who harmlessly expose the ineptitude of the clowns at the Pentagon, and we incarcerate innocent people without trial and torture them in a concentration camp on Cuba, we had no problem refusing extradition requests for terrorists who had murdered people who weren't American.

One reason people might get irritated is because not only did we not give a single shit about terrorism in other countries before 9/11, but after 9/11 we started lecturing countries that had endured terrorism for decades about how evil terrorism was (because it was now happening to us). More people were killed in the Northern Ireland conflict than 9/11.