From: "Gary Wiltshire" 

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.

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Gary Wiltshire

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