I have never really looked at the UK map very carefully before. Today when I inspected it for the first time (seriously) after hearing the tragic news about some unfortunate police officers getting killed, something strikes me really hard: it appears strange that the Island of Ireland is spitted into two parts and the Northern Ireland is under Britain’s rule. How interesting! No wonder the IRA always wanted to free Northern Ireland from the UK. No matter what, I see this intention much better justified than “freeing” Tibet from China, at least the Tibet plateau doesn’t have a body of water that separates itself from the rest of the China’s territory.
Maybe some day someone from the Republican splinter groups or the IRA could get a Nobel Peace Prize and what not for instigating a freedom war. History will always mock people to whom the ultimate stupidity always belongs. So I am keeping my fingers crossed….