Weird, innit. When people with whom we would like accommodation do despicable things, we find it so easy to turn a blind eye. You're not wrong, Michael. It's rather reminiscent of an earlier part of this thread when it was said (by me among others) that we sought appeasement with Hitler despite our knowing that he had been persecuting Jews for years, had an aggressive expansionist policy, had sent his bombers to Spain to help Franco and had invaded Czechoslovakia. I think we call it being in denial. Or worse.