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March 16, 2007
Pandora's Box once opened ....
Recently I was told that Stephen Hawking thinks that the reason we have not been contacted by any superior space faring race is that they have all blown themselves up at about the same point in development as we have reached. Well, that has certainly refueled the "Unilateral Disarmament" debate. Why is it that in the face of all evidence to the contrary, the morons who support the idea that if we, the British people, give up all our weapons, everyone else will do so too? They tried it in the 1920's and 30's and look where that got us all. They have been trying to disarm us since 1945 - and very nearly succeeded - proclaiming that we would be "better red than dead!" Now they think that if we surrender our defensive capability, that the likes of Iran and every other funny bunny regime will give up their ambitions to overthrow our society and impose their idea of Utopia.
It is edifying just how many of Blair's Cronies are jumping ship so that they can vote with the rest of their ex-hippie, pot-smoking "Peaceniks" against the retention of our nuclear deterent. All the usual garbage about how much more we could spend on the NHS, Education and all their usual hiding places and gravy trains - if only we didn't spend it on defence. Considering that we spend less per capita on defence than any other EU nation and certainly less per capita than any one of the states threatening to blow us away if they get the chance, I find this posturing in Westminster absolutely sickening. At least - for this occassion - sense seems to have prevailed and we are, it seems, to build the next generation submarine fleet and missile/warhead system.
Once something has been removed from Pandora's Box, it cannot be put back again. Once nuclear weapons were built and used they can never be "disinvented". They are a fact of life and we now have to live with that - throwing away our capability as these idiots wish to do is sheer lunacy in this unstable and morally bankrupt age.
Tacitus wrote almost two thousand years ago - "Si vis pacem; para bellum". It is as true today as it was then.
He who seeks peace; is prepared for war.
Posted by The Gray Monk at March 16, 2007 11:04 PM
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I may 'borrow' that quote from you and put it on my blog. It amazes me what a small group of people can do because others want to believe. I certainly hope you do not get 'disarmed'.
Posted by: vw bug at March 18, 2007 11:53 AM
Feel free - it is, or was, the motto displayed on the badge of HMS Excellent, the gunnery school when we still had a navy rather than a Civil Service that pretends we have armed forces.
Posted by: The Gray Monk at March 19, 2007 06:30 PM