lol good gravy gertie, one little statement picked apart for no reason people...and everyone knows exactly what I meant by my statement

Who the good guys are and who the bad guys are all depends on which side if any you are on.

Now in the case of Mr Sheen I have no earthly idea how much or how little he knows about the actual facts concerning what his statements addressed, he may have been operating under completely false assumptions for all I know; its a moot point since it cant be determined outside of media public quotes taken perhaps out of context so shrugs.

I know in the USA considering how our country came into being that a certain degree of subjective interpretation is used in colloquial and unfortunately also in professional accounts of the history depending upon whose side one was on or with whom one's sympathies lay.

Also imho Americans in general (at least not those wholly sympathetic to England) due to our own country's past and social influence have a tendency to view the turbulent relationship of England and Ireland in favor of the Irish people as the underdog trying to do what we ourselves once did. Granted their methods are sometimes reprehensible. I know at lot of Americans hope that one day Ireland will be able to fully free themselves from their "English oppressors".

Ironic considering that Great Briton is our closest and best ally (not over the Irish issue obviously) but because of two world wars that affected all of us and the subsequent threats posed by the rise of Communism, Terrorism and perhaps not so far in the future: "China".