Comments on: Nuclear Weapons: The MAD Men and the Silent Sane

By: bozh

bozh — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 23:33:16 +0000

Jim McCluskey:
we had spears, torches, knives, rocks for weapons for the same reason we have wmd: to conquer the four quarters of known world and to ensure for an eternity clerico-noble rule world-over!

if we cld establish a world-wide pantisocratic and timocratic rule, we’d destroy all weapons and wld have removed much of exploitation, injustice, etc.

that’s what insanely-sane clerico-noble class of ‘high’ life wld not ever promote or allow unless bns of people wld rise against them!

however, i still have to encounter even one contributor who explicitly promotes a rule by all those who want to participate in it.
? all seem to want to keep old pants and then put a patch smwhere on it; expecting the patch wld solve the problems for all time. tnx

By: MichaelKenny

MichaelKenny — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 15:51:27 +0000

Re Cameron: I would guess that he’s pulling one of those “stunts” he is so good at. He is reducing the conventional forces which allow Britain, more than any other EU member state, to be used as cannon fodder in America’s dirty wars on Israel’s behalf but, as a sop to the “looney” wing of his party, which includes Fox himself, he is maintaining nuclear weapons that can, in practice, never be used. It is, of course, a vast waste of money but he may well be hoping that public opinion will be so shocked at the cost that he will be “forced” to abandon Trident. By that time, of course, the conventional cuts will be irreversible and Cameron will end up with both ends of the stick!