 Complete the following phrase:  The common unionist charge was that Westminster and Whitehall continued to classify Northern Ireland, as it had Ireland before partition, as something more akin to a colonial than a domestic problem. From the first street deployment of troops in 1969 the impression given was of a peace-keeping operation in which Her Majestys Forces are not defending their homeland, but holding at bay two sects and factions as in Imperial India, Mandated Palestine or in 