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Trident. Why do we need to upgrade?
Jun 3, 2007

Tell me, why does Britain need to spend millions of sterling on upgrading the Trident (nuclear) missile project (arsenal)?

Why does Pakistan, India, Iran or North Korea feel the need to join the arms race and own a nuclear arsenal?

And why does America flagrantly ignore the wishes of, firstly, their own electorate and the whole of humanity, refusing to make approaches that would lead to total global disarmament. The same applies to Russia?

I fail to see the need for ANYONE to own an arsenal that boast items of mass destruction, if ever used, would wipe out mankind. I fail to see why mankind lives in such a inharmonious lack of trust and insistence of tribal and territorial mentality. That everyone else are enemies and never can be friends.

It isn't just one or two nations, tho' at present, it is one or two who pose the biggest threat to the world peace secured in 1945.

North Korea is run by a dictator who turns all the lights off at night. And I DO mean ALL the lights, the entire country falls into darkness. Should he be applauded for what may be seen by some as taking a major stance in the growing trend of aiding the battle against global warming? I hardly think so. This is about power. And I hardly think someone who believes to be seen as performing the, then why he is he so intent on developing his own nuclear arsenal, warheads he believes will counteract the possible insurgence of American forces into his country? I'm sorry Kim, but I just don't figure how you have come to such a conclusion. North Korea has no real tactical importance. It has nothing to offer the world by way of energy or oil, so why is Kim so paranoid? Power.  Aww, diddums, did liccle Kimmie chuck his dummy outta his pram?

By developing a nuclear weapon, Kim will certainly get noticed, he will be ensuring his tiny nation becomes a target. And just what have his people done to deserve that? Or does he somehow believe that, with the added strength and threat of a nuke at his fingertips, that his neighbour, China, will fall in on his side? Oh do wake up Kim!
Pakistan and India have always had grievances against each other. I cannot see the logic of the wish to bomb the merry hell out of each other tho'. Maybe I'm not seeing the full picture here but come on, lets face it, they're both cut from the same cloth for goodness sake just as are North and South Korea; just as are North and South Dakota; just as are East and West Sussex!

And Iran. Who's agenda do they claim to be following?  In a region that is a hotbed of political and religious fervour and unrest, they too want a bomb. Why? If they needed to do anything against the world as such, they could halt the oil supply. But why do they need to attempt to hold the world to ransom by any method? And why do they need to threaten THEIR own part of world with complete and utter annihilation?

As a leading country in the very cradle of civilisation, you'd have thought they'd have caught up with the rest of the world by now. Do they want the bomb so they can instil their medieval practices on the rest of the world? To have every man turn on his neighbour and kill them? To treat people as THEY see fit? To treat women like third class citizens, covered and speechless? There are no crusades anymore because other nations are not interested in anyone not prepared to help themselves first or admit they just might be wrong.

WAKE UP! This is the 21st century. Peace reigns over 97% of the world. 50% of that world are happy with their lot, so long as they left to live it. The remainder are only complaining, rightly, because of greedy governments and insidious tax hikes.

It is about time, long overdue, that, once and for all, man, whatever, whoever, stood alongside his neighbour, from wherever, and screamed "ENOUGH!"

This applies to ALL nations. We under the NATO umbrella MUST be seen to be doing something. That's why I question the ethics of a government ready to shell out millions of pounds on what they call a "nuclear deterrent" while millions are starving and dying. While millions have nowhere to live and millions suffer through disaster and hardship. We should ALL be concentrating on global warming and how to halt it. Nuclear missiles would only add to the breakdown of nature and our Mother Earth…

I know my words won't even scratch the surface of the inequity that surrounds anything political or military. They will ruffle the brows of the despotic and cretinous morons who, for whatever reason, are in charge in this creation forsaken world of ours, so it's probably a waste of my time for writing, and yours for reading so I've wasted my breath, my ink and my computer space but I'm still saying it to you all who have read and digested it, we should be unfettering ourselves from the shackles placed around us by our illustrious leaders and speak out.

To reiterate why I began writing this…

Why, why, why does ANYONE need a nuclear arsenal? If they are even contemplated as being used or are, indeed, used, there will be no victory because there will be no victor. There will be no-one left to ensure it never happens again either. So what is the f****** point?!

NB. Answers on a postcard to bunker A. DC. That's district of  Chiswick not Columbia.

© tcmoon 2007-06-01
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Posted: Sunday June 3, 2007, 5:40 pm
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