Mad Dog wrote:
> The Nuclear Deterrent is the best weapon we have ever had, it has also
meant
> "peace in our time" for many of us. Yes there have been small wars but
the
> continent of Europe has never had such a sustained period of peace. In
the
> past all the continent of Europe has ever known is war, death,
destruction
> and decimation. We have kept the continent free of war and this has
given
> us a chance to live in freedom and also to reap economic benefits.
>
> Socialist MP's wish to take all this away from us and their policy is to
> disarm us, such horse**** has not been spoken since Chamberlain met Von
> Ribbentrop and Hitler and the gullible old fool got hoodwinked. We can
not
> afford to stand down our nuclear deterrent, we must spend more money to
> advance and modernize our warheads.
>
> Quite simply, the nuclear deterrent is the best thing since sliced
bread.
Perhaps what's needed then is a nuclear proliferation treaty, in which
every country gets a whole bunch of them, along with the capacity to
deliver them onto the cities of their neighbours and adversaries.
To borrow from the classics ...
If warheads be the stuff of peace,
bring them on,
Give me excess of them; that surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.
That cloud again, it had a dying fall;
O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound
That breathes upon a nest of mushrooms
....
So full of shapes is fancy, that it alone is high fantastical.
Fran
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