Jesus Was Right!

[poliphilo]

I don't suppose the young Gordon Brown went into politics so that one day he could stand up in front of an audience of money-men and announce that Britain needed to retain its independent nuclear deterrent.

I guess he thinks he needs to make these compromises in order to appear electable to the frightened mush-heads of Middle England.

But in the process he's turning himself into everything he once hated and despised.

There's a verse in the New Testament that explicitly addresses this situation; "For what shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world but lose his own soul?"

Comments

[sorenr.livejournal.com]

Oh, he DIDN'T!!!?

*incredulous*

That's just... Oh, dear...

[sorenr.livejournal.com]

Time to watch Dr. Strangelove, methinks...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Good call!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It seems we can have any kind of government we like in this country just so long as it's a right wing one.

[frsimon.livejournal.com]

Lose his only 'pscyhe' of course, that is life, the stuff that makes me me. Which is pretty much what a nuclear war would do to us.

I'd be a unilateralist even if it were an intrinsically unpopular position. But these days I'm not convinced. As with so many other things, New Labour doesn't even want to have the debate. Yet they are constantly telling us that the threat is no longer from nation states but from terrorist organisations intent on launching attacks on our major urban centres. Against such foes nuclear weapons are useless. But if they really out there in any numbers I would have thought that the fewer tonnes of plutonium there are around the better. More bombs means a greater risk of some of them, or their components, falling into the wrong hands.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I entirely agree. This isn't about what the country or the world needs, or even about what makes strategic sense, but about what Brown thinks he needs to say to become prime minister.

I've always been a unilateralist. I want this country to stop strutting around as if it were still an imperial power and accept its status as a small European nation.

And how can we object to countries like Iran getting the bomb when we refuse to give up our own nukes?