From: "Gary Wiltshire" 

On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 17:19:35 -0500, Adam  wrote:

> Gary Wiltshire wrote:
>> On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 10:42:38 -0500, Adam field.near the bridge">
>>  wrote:
>>
>>> Gary Wiltshire wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Fine so let's get Iran etc armed now. I don't mind if
every country
>>>>> down
>>>>>  to dare I say it...Belgium...gets nukes. However the current
>>>>> "system"
>>>>> is unsustainable & thus the choice remains - World
full of nukes or
>>>>> World empty of nukes. To Say ""Oh
Britain/France/US/Russia/PRC are
>>>>> just
>>>>> so much more responsible with weapons of vast death
& terror" is not
>>>>> sustainable.
>>>>>
>>>>> Effectively they are "Dachau in a box". It
made me laugh out loud to
>>>>> see
>>>>> alll those "world leaders" gather for some
holocaust memorial or
>>>>> other
>>>>> all vowing "never again" while behind them
stood the relevant bods
>>>>> with
>>>>> their briefcases chained to their wrists.
>>>>>
>>>>> If it guarantees peace etc then the more the merrier.
Certainly every
>>>>> major middle eastern country should have both arms
& delivery
>>>>> systems as
>>>>> this would (it would appear) settle the situation right down.
>>>>> Obviously
>>>>> we will have to wait a few years while the internal situation
>>>>> settles in
>>>>> Iraq but then....sell em the missiles & the
warheads & build them
>>>>> some
>>>>> facilities so they can make their own.
>>>>>
>>>>> Adam
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> That presupposes a common level of morality and rationality in all
>>>> countries.  I don't consider Iran at the same level of either of our
>>>> countries.
>>>>
>>>
>>> ROFLMAO. Ah dear me thanks for the laugh.
>>>
>>> Was Mao or Stalin thus at our "common level of morality and
>>> rationality"?
>>>
>>> If it guarantees the peace then who better to have them than those
>>> facing bellicose situations?
>>>
>>> Adam
>>  No, they weren't at our level.  We simply weren't in a military
>> position to disarm them.
>>  --Gary Wiltshire
>
> & you never will be.
>
> Either all disarm or the numbers who will have to agree to disarm will
> grow.
>
> Shrug. The NPT is is worthless as the constitution of the USSR or
> Rhodesia.
>
> Adam

And the nation who cheats, wins.  Just ask the DPRK.

--
Gary Wiltshire

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