The Curmudgeon

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Tuesday, November 04, 2008

Not Debatable

As the lights grow dim all over Westminster, a few dozen Labour MPs have had a sudden attack of spinefulness over the missile defence system which will protect us from Iran's weapons of long-range nonexistence by pointing American weapons at Russia. Since the only reliable thing about the system is the likelihood that it will start a new arms race with the country where the gas is piped from, and since the system is American, the Government has already given our greatest ally permission to start deploying bits of it on, or possibly under, British soil. Preparations are also afoot in Poland and the Czech Republic; but the governments in those countries, unlike our own, have sufficient independence to argue the matter in parliament first.

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