by 112-1077774096 » Fri Oct 13, 2006 11:49 am
Brian Reade, daily mirror
AND JUST WHO IS THE ROGUE STATE?
12 October 2006
I'VE spent the past few days speaking to some of Britain's sharpest military and political brains to find out why it's OK for us to have nuclear weapons, but not North Korea.
And the answer was Wacko Jacko. Or mad and bad. They are, we're not.
Compare the differences between us, they say, and it's clear we're modern and civilised, while they're stone-age savages.
Look at diets. They eat dogs, we eat lambs, after they've been chopped into the shape of traffic cones and rotated in fly-infested kebab-shop windows for weeks.
They have a hereditary head of state undemocratically imposed on them. Whereas we have The Queen, followed by her son, whether we like it or not.
They loathe their neighbours South Korea so much they refuse to join in a political union. We loathe all of our European ones so much we won't even join a common currency.
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Their leader Kim Jong-il is a crackpot dictator, whereas ours refuses to give up power and says God, not mere voters, will decide if he's right.
Jong-il is surrounded by nutters, while Tony Blair has David Blunkett, who admits he went mad as Home Secretary. And Gordon Brown, described as "psychologically flawed" by Tony Blair's right-hand man Alastair Campbell, whose mate once handed him marbles in hospital and told him not to lose them again.
The only time you see this crackpot is at staged events, surrounded by dissent-repressing goons and party officials who wear fixed grins and sing: "Oh glorious noble Great One, we will follow you unquestioningly for ever."
And sometimes Kim Jong-il's gatherings are like the Labour Party Conference too.
They are so crazy, they might illegally start a war with a nuclear power which threatens the end of the world. Whereas we helped start one with a non-nuclear non-power which brought Armageddon to every street in Iraq.
Badness and madness. It depends where you're coming from. But this government has no right to lecture so-called "rogue states" over aggression, when it backed the biggest rogue state on earth in the illegal destruction of a sovereign state for its own greed.
How dare we say to countries deemed part of an "axis of evil" by the world's most blood-thirsty war-mongerer that they cannot defend themselves with a nuclear deterrent, when we allow Israel, India and Pakistan to keep a lethal armoury, simply because they're America's friends?
Especially after discovering, with the arming of Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden, how we end up paying for America's poor choice of mates with our soldiers' lives.
We have neither the moral authority nor the credibility to lecture any other country about their use of deadly weapons, because after the invented WMD dossiers and the carpet-bombing of Iraqi civilians, we're rightly seen by billions as being up there with the baddest and maddest.
Us telling North Korea they can't have nuclear weapons is like Michael Jackson spotting a dad smacking his son and reporting him for child abuse.
Let's keep our mouths shut, and instead spend some time analysing our own insane belief that we are still the policeman of the world, before making ourselves even more loathed than we already are.