Well yes. But I'm pointing out the irony that the outrage about it stems from an expectation on the part of the republican rioters that - despite all their anti-Brit rhetoric - the British wouldn't behave like that because they're generally decent and you can lob bricks at them with impunity. So, in fact, the whole thing relies on an underlying assumption by rabid republicans that the Brits are generally decent and not likely to open up on them - even when they deserve it.
And generally, of course, they'd have been right. However, Paras are a bit different.
A bit thick and prone to acts of immense violence with little provocation, in my experience
You sounded positively American in the lunatic way they view those who serve.
That is not a good thing, ever.
Orwell didn't mean it like that. He meant it as a reminder to those who sneer at the armed forces that their freedom to do so is entirely reliant on the people they sneer at. Always worth bearing in mind, that - without going into paroxysms of military worship, of course.
You sounded positively American in the lunatic way they view those who serve.
That is not a good thing, ever.
If it weren't for us, Seamus, you'd be speaking Deutsche; that is if they had bothered to cross another strip of water. Put that in your wee pipe and smoke it, Danny Boy.