Britain must not sacrifice Trident to please Obama

telegraph.co.uk ^ | July 10, 2009 | Nile Gardiner

[Tailgunner Joe]

....Obama has called for a 30-nation summit in Washington next March to discuss nuclear non-proliferation. This follows a reckless preliminary agreement between Obama and Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev in Moscow to cut America’s nuclear stockpile and delivery systems by up to a third, a deal which is stunningly good for the Russians but hugely damaging for America’s interests.

In the wake of the Moscow summit, Gordon Brown has hinted he may include scrapping or weakening the Trident nuclear deterrent as part of a global agreement on non-proliferation. Eager to please the Obama White House, the Prime Minister has signaled his willingness to reduce Britain’s 160 warheads as well as the number of nuclear submarines. This will be music to the ears of left-wing Labour backbenchers eager to see Trident obliterated.

This is all premised on the ludicrous notion that rogue states such as North Korea and Iran will pledge to end their nuclear weapons programmes, despite not a shred of evidence they will do so. It simply beggars belief that both Washington and London are seeking to reduce their defences at a time when key adversaries are seeking to acquire offensive nuclear capability, and are test-firing ballistic missiles left right and centre. The Iranians already possess weapons that can strike southern Europe, and it won’t be long before they are capable of hitting the West too.

Deciding the future of Britain’s defences should not be a faith-based exercise revolving around the false promises of Third world dictators like Kim Jong Il or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Any agreement signed with them would not be worth the paper it’s written on. Nor should British defence policy be dictated by the hugely naïve worldview of Barack Obama, whose vanity-driven vision of a nuclear-free world is a pipedream that bears no relation to current reality.

[The Magical Mischief Tour]

Looks like Barry has managed to piss off our cousins across the pond.

[mainepatsfan]

Next time maybe he’ll check the DVD region code.

[Da Coyote]

Were I a Brit, I wouldn’t even give that loser a clean room to please him.

That clown couldn’t clean a bathroom at Oxford or Cambridge, let alone get in.

[humblegunner]

Darn right.

Trident is some pretty good gum and we would all be diminished without it.

[DoughtyOne]

The damage this guy is going to do...  basically has no limits.


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[SDShack]

0zer0 is the Neville Chamberlain of our time. All talk and no action. Everytime I see him fail on foreign policy like with Iran, N.Korea, Russia and China, he reminds me of the Mayor in Jaws in that scene where Hooper tells the Mayor “I think you are going to ignore this particular problem until it swims up and bites you on the ass!”

[jag.drafting]

History is repeating itself. It’s like it’s 1914 all over again.

[Right Cal Gal]

It’ll crack me up when all 30 countries say “sorry, can’t make it.”

[silverleaf]

Gordon Brown is still trying his hardest to get the cool kid Barry to like him.

Britain selected Uriah Heep as their PM. Who knew.

[Right Cal Gal]

30 Countries? 30??? So now the Boy King thinks he’s the Secretary General of the U.N.?

[Costumed Vigilante]

[1066AD]

Blair was (re)elwected in 2005 which was bad enough, he then resigned so the Labour party elected Brown as the next PM, which is how it works there.
Brown has been a disaster as predicted by many, including Blair in the past !

[Red Dog #1]

Why can't all of you reactionary right wingers see that if we were just a little more reasonable with the unreasonable (Kim Jong Il and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad) we would be free from the dangers of nuclear annihilation and we could all have free health care and we... (extreme sarcasm)

[The Duke]

Eager to please the Obama White House, the Prime Minister has signaled his willingness to reduce Britain’s 160 warheads...

How many times does Obama have to slap this guy before he gets a little self-respect?