It looks increasingly likely that a bomb brought down the Russian aircraft in Egypt, though I do find Cameron’s proclamations a little premature. I’m conflicted here, to be honest. As long as there is any doubt around the bomb theory the BBC et al are basically serving as the PR wing of ISIS, in a perverted sense. ISIS are likely to claim any good in that part of the world as the work of their cunning and conniving schemes, but it doesn’t make it true! Remember all the ragtag groups that claimed 911 as their handiwork. I optimistically (in the loosest sense) hope that the aircraft crashed as a result of those repairs carried out after a tail strike, though that was back in 2001 apparently. It wouldn’t be the first time that botched repairs caused a bulkhead to blow out at altitude, and I imagine an explosive decompression and a bomb sound fairly similar over a cockpit voice recorder. From that sort of thing knuckles can be rapped, lessons can be learned, procedures can be introduced or revised. The alternative is the white-hot lunacy of ISIS, and I hate to think that they are getting credit where it certainly isn’t due. If nothing else I think the way ISIS is commonly reported is perhaps a little simplistic. Yes they are barbaric religious extremists, but they have too many resources, seem to act in too calculated a matter and just seem to be too widely spread for there not to be some sort of overarching power structure that we aren’t totally tapping in to. I’ve seen the Saudi royal family implicated, but you quickly end up in David Icke territory that way. Is it fair to say ISIS is misrepresented in the West to aid political agendas here? Who can say, but history could potentially suggest so.
All of this is small beer, apparently, anyway. If you watch the news you would think that the real story wasn’t so much dead Russians as inconvenienced sunburnt Brits. I think holidaying in ‘Sharm’ comes with its inherent risks, personally, and that anybody staying there shouldn’t discount them. You are paying Benidorm prices to holiday in Egypt, not that you apparently notice any difference in your gated esort, and in doing so you are spending time in a country that recently had a military coup that saw the president thrown in gaol. You are saving money by holidaying in a risky part of the world, so occasionally the **** will hit the fan; yet I’m supposed to feel sympathy for a pack of chavs stuck in an airport, because they keep sobbing that nobody knows what is going on. In that aspect I suppose they are quite correct, but whilst this uncertainty remains it is probably best that you don’t get on an aeroplane in an airport where it appears that you can bribe the security team and have anything placed in the hold. All of this overlooks the plight all those Russian families with dead relatives strewn around the Sinai desert, purely because our Kimberley has to spend a few more nights in a plush hotel. This whiny, lazy and complacent attitude will be the downfall of this country, I tell ye.
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