So Sir Gen Haughton And Jeremy Corbyn Clash - On Remembrance Sunday.

[DTCwordfan]

The issue, nuclear defence. The venue, the Andrew Marr show, the transcript of the interview, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/08111503.pdf

Apparently Corbyn is furious and believes senior military should be muzzled.

Is he right? And this must grate with those Labourites who believe in deterrents as to nuclear missiles. How is this going to play out?

My view is that Corbyn is barking.....

[jno]

elected politicans decide defence priorities, not generals - unless you're in one of those countries subject to military coups.

[naomi24]

Corbyn strikes me as a relic from the bygone age of ‘flower power’ – a man clinging desperately to impossibly idealistic dreams and one who has never grown up and moved on into reality. A woman interviewed on television a day or so back summed him up perfectly. A geriatric hippie.

[tonyav]

That's exactly how I see him to, naomi.

[Gromit]

Yep.
Blowing millions of people up with an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile is such a grown up, unHippy thing to do. How can any potential Prime Minister even contemplate the job if he is not prepared to annilate millions of innocent victims? What is the world coming to when our leaders rule themselves out of being meglomaniacal mass murders?

[tonyav]

Yeah good idea, lets give trident up so that we have no nuclear defence.

[Gromit]

Tonyav,

Have a guess how many European Countries do not have an independent* nuclear deterrent?

Answer: Nearly all of them. It doesn't make a jott of difference.

[Gromit]

Not sure what you are saying here divebuddy?

We could hide behind France?

[janbee]

I'll always take the word of an army general over a superannuated politician any day. Cor byn Laden is VERY dangerous and very anti British. Shame on him.

[sandyRoe]

Do we need a secret committee of national security waiting in the wings in case the unthinkable happens? It would need to include military figures and other members of the Great and the good.
I'm sure the owner of The Mail, for example, wouldn't need much cajoling to do his duty.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Great and the good.
Dear me.

[vetuste_ennemi]

A girl beng raped; a priest being crucified. Mr Big is mute.
After all, they're only Christians.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Change Atavar. Hypocrisy should speak in its own form.

[sandyRoe]

Who is this taciturn Mr Big? Name and shame him.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Clever course in the catachism which distorts all moral virtues suchwise.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Love thine enemy is a complement to the more natural principle of loving your friend. Reference the parable of the good Samamaritan.
Should be additional rather than a replacement for the natural tribal instinct.
Northern Irish with brain ought to know this.

[vetuste_ennemi]

..for the natural instinct of loving your friend/own.

[lady-janine]

i'm with baz on this one. Teflon was covering his arris and polishing up his front before he did anything about Iraq. a really nasty dangerous piece of work.

[vetuste_ennemi]

I'm not expressing myself clearly: I think morality means caring for the suffering of others, not about feeling good about oneself.