Paracelsus

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Lessons from MH17

Now that it is generally accepted(except by some conspiracy theorist junkies and professional America haters and of course the "lamestream" Russian media) that MH17 was shot down by a missile fired by so-called"rebels"( of whom it is an open secret that they are tacitly supported by the Kremlin), where do we go from here?

Well, for a start if Putin and Co refuse to hand over the flight recorders of the shot down airliners and prove generally uncooperative I think that not only should the sanctions imposed so far between tightened still further but that Ukraine should sign and ratify the International Criminal Court Convention- Putin may not be overburdened by scruples but the prospect of becoming a virtual pariah internationally due to harbouring those guilty for such an atrocity will concentrate even his mind- to quote my countryman Samuel Johnson- "when a man is due to be hanged in fortnight it concentrates his mind beautifully!".

An unintended bonus of the shootdown of MH17 has been the wleocme silencing of Putin's "useful idiots" in the West such as paleocon pundit Pat Buchanan and UKIP leader Nigel Farage who since this matter hit the headlines have been maintianing a decided(but thankful) silence.

All in all, this whole matter sums up a long standing view of my own that those who for whatever reason play with the fires of racial, religious and ideological extremism, usually narrow partisan advantage( as the GOP did with the Tea Party in the 2012 US Presidential elections and as PM David Cameron is doing with not just his own Eurosceptic backbenchers but with UKIP in the run up to next year's General Elections) almost invariably end up being badly burned by them- as they DESERVE to be!

Anybody else think as I do?

Terry

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