Men start all the wars? Thanks, Theresa May...well, there goes that stereotype. :)

SirSkeptic · 2016-07-19T14:04:54+00:00

"Men start all the wars" is an inaccurate stereotype.

People only need to look at the political records of every female leader: Empress Wu, Catherine the Great, Queens Mary, Victoria & Elizabeth, Golda Meir, Indira Gandhi, Margret Thatcher, Julia Gillard.

Not one of them has hesitated to send the boys of their country to their deaths.

StuWard · 2016-07-19T11:47:25+00:00

There's no point in having a nuclear deterrent if the person at the top is not prepared to use it. Even if he/she is not prepared to use it, the perception that he is, is paramount to the validity of the deterrent. This says more of the morality of he predecessors than it does about her.

Sir Geoffrey Howe, who was Foreign Secretary in the closing years of the cold war, said it was a question no prime minister should ever answer directly.

Sir Geoffrey is an ass.

Without being asked, Jeremy Corbyn volunteered the statement that “I’m not making the decision that kills millions of innocent people.”

Corbyn is unfit to be a leader.

He added: “I do not believe the threat of mass murder is a legitimate way to go about international relations.”

He may be right on that point, but once one country plays that card, you're in the game until everyone is out of the game.

Edit: for the public record:

from startaste sent 6 minutes ago

Speak for yourself, faggot. I don't want a mass murderer for a leader.

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re: Hey

to startaste sent just now

I never said that anyone SHOULD use nuclear weapons, but they need to be prepared to if someone else acts first. That's how deterrence works. As long as the other guy is armed, you need to be armed and ready to act.

Don't call be a faggot, that is homophobic and you don't even know me.

Note that "startaste" was a new account, obviously set up just to PM me anonomously.

autotldr · 2016-07-20T03:13:29+00:00

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 70%. (I'm a bot)

Theresa May has declared without hesitation that she would order a nuclear strike to kill hundreds of thousands of people if she thought it was necessary.

The Prime Minister gave the blunt reply during a parliamentary debate on the renewal of the Trident nuclear weapons programme, which many suspect was staged by the government for the sole purpose of drawing attention to the rift between Jeremy Corbyn and a majority of Labour MPs. Ms May was challenged by the SNP's George Kerevan, who asked: "Are you prepared to authorise a nuclear strike that could kill hundreds of thousands of men, women and children?".

Officially, Parliament was being asked to agree to spend up to around £30 billion renewing the four Trident submarines that are equipped with nuclear missiles and warheads.

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Title	Men start all the wars? Thanks, Theresa May...well, there goes that stereotype. :)
Author	CMOS222
Upvotes	60
Comments	9
Date	July 19, 2016 11:32 AM UTC (10 years ago)
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