I've been thinking about The Troubles, the years between 1968 and 1998 in Northern Ireland, while ugly and blood in those 30 years only about 3,000 people died (to date in Iraq in 4,400 US have died in 7 years), some one posted an idea about Soviet aid to the IRA turning Northern Ireland into a Western Afghanistan slowly bleeding the UK dry, now I think USSR aid to the IRA is ASB, but what POD could make it into a Afghanistan or Vietnam, with daily fighting, no one safe at night or out side towns (or in this case non-unionist areas) all that jazz?