March 28, 2002

Members of Britain's New Labour

Members of Britain's New Labour are quivering after learning that their party's government is willing to use nuclear weapons "in the right conditions." John Keegan sees this as a prudent decision. He writes:

Of course they are right to be concerned that, unless the rogue states are checked while there is time, civilisation will pay a terrible price. Kind, well-meaning people in the advanced states, who shrink from thinking ill of anyone, are naturally repelled by the idea of taking pre-emptive action. No doubt the inhabitants of the Christian lands said as much to each other before the eruption of Genghis Khan. They paid the price, which took centuries to recoup. Genghis Khan merely killed. Nuclear weapons lay waste, permanent waste. We have been warned.

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