John Crawley

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Anything Goes with James English · US Marine Fighting for the IRA - John Crawley Tells His Story · 18 Apr 2026 podcast

It damages the struggle, it sabotages what you're fighting for.

I mean, you know, you want to look back at history someday if we achieve our full goals and look back with pride at what we've done.

And you know, you can't look back at innocent civilians killed with pride.

Nobody could do that.

Now, having said that, I was never involved in an operation that killed innocent civilians.

I was never, the vast majority, the vast overwhelming majority of IRA men were never involved in operations where innocent civilians were killed.

There was a small handful of cases where that did happen.

And it was either the result of incompetence, poor intelligence, or in a number of cases, and like I said, I believe this may come out in the next two or three years, the Dark Cannon Bridge intelligence was involved in some of them, you know.

Of course, man.

It is.

And it's tough for someone who joins maybe a resistance organization with the highest ideals and makes the most sacrifices and then turns out other people at a higher level are maybe working on a different agenda to see can they get a career out of it or see what they can get out of it.

You know, this corruption is what kind of kills a lot of this stuff, you know, and why a lot of people sometimes end up demoralized and disillusioned.

Yeah, it's a terrible thing.

I don't consider myself, well, as a soldier, I will do what a soldier needs to do, but

I would never consider myself a cruel person.

I have empathy.

I have sympathy.

I mean, I trained with the British Parachute Regiment when I was in recon.

They came over and they were doing some amphibious boat training with us.

I went out and socialized with them, had drinks with them, had a good time, had fun.

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