{"id":3826,"date":"2017-09-15T14:41:46","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T21:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/?p=3826"},"modified":"2017-09-15T14:41:46","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T21:41:46","slug":"mo-borders-mo-troubles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2017\/09\/15\/14\/41\/mo-borders-mo-troubles\/","title":{"rendered":"Mo Borders, Mo Troubles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wrt Brexit’s Irish Question<\/a>… During “The Troubles<\/a>“, there were 3,600 people killed, over 50,000 injured, and thousands of bombs (this is only a small sample of notables<\/a>). By the 1990s, the impact and economic damage of the IRA’s targetting was increasing dramatically: Baltic Exchange<\/a>, Bishopsgate<\/a>, Manchester 1996<\/a>. These were then close to billion dollar economic hits as well as devastatingly fatal. This was a factor in the readiness of the major parties to come to the negotiating table and hammer out a ceasefire.<\/p>\n

By comparison, the mickey mouse efforts of Daesh in the UK recently are relatively insignificant. The fact that some Tory elements have been willing to play ethno-nationalist zero-sum games to fuel their internal political struggles that have resulted in Brexit and are toying with the idea of again erecting a hard border in Ireland that can only add legitimacy back to the rogue splinter IRA elements and risk re-igniting the Troubles are just another sign of their moral bankruptcy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wrt Brexit’s Irish Question… During “The Troubles“, there were 3,600 people killed, over 50,000 injured, and thousands of bombs (this is only a small sample of notables). By the 1990s, the impact and economic...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[481],"tags":[1914,1925,1391,1926],"class_list":["post-3826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-brexit","tag-ira","tag-ireland","tag-troubles"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t