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2009-07-06 Britain

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Posted by Steve White 2009-07-06 14:34|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 "The problem is that nuclear submarines are so complex that once we lose that technology, it would be impossible to ever get it back again."

That's the idea, guys - that's the idea. If we can just make manufacturing weapons impossible, then we can eliminate all wars. It's the same sort of thinking that comes up with ideas like unilateral nuclear disarmament.

Posted by gromky 2009-07-06 14:54|| 2009-07-06 14:54|| Front Page Top

#2 Steve - I'm afraid they already made that decision perhaps as long ago as the 1945 elections, and certainly by the Suez affair.

It's more a question of being a second, third or fourth rate power, and even more importantly a first rate cultural power. We share that dilemma with them, and neither of us are doing well lately, but their combined losses in both areas are disheartening. Perhaps King Charles successor (if there is one) can be a cultural and political warrior.

Posted by Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division 2009-07-06 14:55|| 2009-07-06 14:55|| Front Page Top

#3 Gromky: there are always sticks and stones.

Hal: I understand that point and it does seem that some in our country want to tred that same path, with much the same results. But one should not delude himself into thinking that one can be a first class cultural power and a fourth class military power. Life doesn't work that way.

Posted by Steve White 2009-07-06 15:27|| 2009-07-06 15:27|| Front Page Top

#4 I'll bet Delaware got just as upset when people learned all their weapons were to be made in Pennsylvania.

If Europe wants to be one "country" then they need to stop whining over stuff being made in Germany or Belgium or wherever.

Posted by crosspatch 2009-07-06 17:21|| 2009-07-06 17:21|| Front Page Top

#5 De-industrialization of the West, part 58.

BTW, did you know that Columbia produces the Galil under license?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-07-06 18:22|| 2009-07-06 18:22|| Front Page Top

#6 Suez, indeed, was the graveyard of the empire. U.S. interference led to decades of Arab dictatorships/tyranny/despotism/terrorism. (And the Hungarian freedom fighters were simultaneously given the shaft.)

Posted by borgboy 2009-07-06 20:57|| 2009-07-06 20:57|| Front Page Top

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