Drug user analogy can be applied to war

IT IS heartening to see Justice Minister Michael McDowell so clearly understands cause and effect relationships as he tells us “if you do a line of coke in Foxrock, you are personally responsible for the murder of someone in Clondalkin or Coolock or wherever”.

Of course, Mr McDowell is not trying to say that a cocaine user actually puts a gun to the murder victim’s head and pulls the trigger but rather by supporting the drug system, in however small a way, they are as culpable as the actual gunman.

With all that in mind, perhaps the minister could apply it to his own case.