I was thinking about noting this yesterday, of course, other things were on my mind. Did it not strike anyone else as slightly ironic that the queen this week shook the hands of Martin McGuinness, an ex IRA commander? While I think it was an excellent sight and was to be welcomed, I had to raise an eyebrow. After all, this man was the leader of a terrorist paramilitary responsible for killing hundreds. Does this not jar with the UK’s participation with the war on terror? How can we support the americans in their crusade against terror when our experience in Ireland teaches us that today’s terrorist is tomorrow’s respected politician? Im not saying the IRA are or were like al qa’ida, but that this surely shows that the american belief that you can only deal with terrorists by blowing the living daylights out of them is bollocks.