To present this as some kind of "victory" is nonesense.
"The moves are part of the government's security normalisation plans."
(Troop withdrawal plan published, BBC 28 March 2006, <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4853472.stm> )
Normalisation has been a British state strategy since the mid-1970s. Today is less a post-conflict situation than a successful normalisation. From a Republican perspective, this is hardly a gain. As an IRA leader concluded as early as 1975: "Suppose we get the release of all detainees, an amnesty and withdrawal of troops to barracks, we are still back where we started in 1969." Paul Bew and Henry Patterson, The British State and the Ulster Crisis, London: Verso, 1985, p.84