Yet more spending on nuclear weapons.
By a country which has waged at least five wars in the last 15 years, and which is gearing up for at least three more (Mali, Syria, Iran), one of which is arguably already being fought on the ground in Mali.
Unlike North Korea, which has scarcely fired a shot at anyone else in half a century.
Having a wicked government does not in itself make anywhere a military threat to us.
"Having a wicked Government"
ReplyDeleteCalm down, it could be worse. We could have the wicked Government which brought us the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, 28-day detention and (tried but failed) to bring us ID cards.
Or the wicked party that still hasn't apologised for any of those things, or admitted they were wrong.
Well, I can't really object to getting drunk on Easter Monday.
ReplyDeleteOh look, Lindsay's making apologies for the North Koreans/Iranians/Syrains/Insert crackpot backward regime here.
ReplyDeleteOh well, nothing new there.
No, I am saying that they are no threat to us. And that they are a lot less belligerent than we have been in recent years. Both of which are plain and simple facts.
ReplyDeleteAnd all the while, we're waiting for Bush and Blair to take back their apologies (which were actual, you know, apologies rather than realistic assessments of threats) for crackpot regimes such as Egypt under Mubarak, for the Sauds, for the Azerbaijani government, for the Georgian government under Saakashvili and for Gadhafi before he became politically unfashionable in elite circles.
ReplyDeleteBut speaking for myself, I'm not holding my breath.