Nuclear Strikes Against Iran?

Those poor sailors and marines were only sent to where they were picked up in order to provoke a war with Iran, so as to destroy a large and multi-ethnic emerging democracy outside the global hegemony (as in Yugloslavia), and in order to steal its oil (as in Iraq). But will that war involve the nuclear strikes being demanded by neoconservative bloggers and those ringing in to radio programmes?

Well, the first Bush Administration was the only American Administration that might ever have launched such a strike (no atom bomb was ever dropped even on Korea, no nuclear bomb even on Vietnam), and it never did; even Bush wouldn't do it now. The Russians or the Chinese might, if you annoyed them enough. Likewise the French, though with a much higher provocation threshold. The Israelis haven't yet, which does make you wonder. India and Pakistan might against each other, but probably wouldn't.

But Britain? No chance! As much as anything else, we actually couldn't without American permission, anyway.

So, since everyone in the world knows this about us, why do we have to spend an initial £25 billion, rising to £76 billion, on "renewing" Trident?