{"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":"<p>Wrt <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/2017\/09\/28\/brexits-irish-question\/\">Brexit&#8217;s Irish Question<\/a>&#8230; During &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Troubles\">The Troubles<\/a>&#8220;, there were 3,600 people killed, over 50,000 injured, and thousands of bombs (this is only a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_bombings_during_the_Northern_Ireland_Troubles_and_peace_process\">small sample of notables<\/a>). By the 1990s, the impact and economic damage of the IRA&#8217;s targetting was increasing dramatically: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Baltic_Exchange\">Baltic Exchange<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1993_Bishopsgate_bombing\">Bishopsgate<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1996_Manchester_bombing\">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<p>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":"<p>Wrt Brexit&#8217;s Irish Question&#8230; During &#8220;The Troubles&#8220;, 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&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"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":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}