The only reason some of the IRA attacks were successful was because people like you didn't report suspicous packages and devices.
Seeing as I lived in Australia and Denmark at the time, there didn't seem to be much point. You can't really blame the bomb disposal teams for not finding the bombs.
I don't. If anyone should get credit/blame, it should really be the IRA, for not being too obvious with their bombs. I think that is insulting to them and the work they do.
Well you're entitled to your opinion. Americans talk like the war on terror is a new thing. In the UK we've been fighting it for over thirty years.
I believe the IRA was founded in 1922 after Michael Collins "surrendered" to the British. Which makes it 84 years.