"Bomb spotting" in NATO / Europe?

[jimbeaux]

I am all for saving the forests and whales, etc. However, in this case, these morons fail to realize that they are merely pawns for farther reaching socio-economic agendas. Sure, let's drop all of our weapons in a deep hole and let the UN take the nukes from Iran & N. Korea. Am I totally wrong?

www.greenpeace.org/international/news/bombspotting

[seafarer]

I don't know what their agenda is. You may call it hypocritical that certain groups to think it's OK for some to have bombs and not others. Our allies have bombs as a deterrent threat against other unfriendly, unstable governments who have bombs themselves. If N. Korea and Iran, and China have bombs, then the rest of us can't afford to give ours up. We have to be at least as dangerous as our most likely enemy. You'd think Greenpeace had missed out on the workings of the past Cold War. A poor, totalitarian state with extremist activity is arguably more unstable and potentially hostile than a more democratic country. If terrorist activity is seen as acts of war, then the countries affected would naturally arm themselves, and possibly take action against countries that are historically (or considered to be) sponsors of terrorists.

[jimbeaux]

seafarer said:

I don't know what their agenda is. You may call it hypocritical that certain groups to think it's OK for some to have bombs and not others. Our allies have bombs as a deterrent threat against other unfriendly, unstable governments who have bombs themselves. If N. Korea and Iran, and China have bombs, then the rest of us can't afford to give ours up. We have to be at least as dangerous as our most likely enemy. You'd think Greenpeace had missed out on the workings of the past Cold War. A poor, totalitarian state with extremist activity is arguably more unstable and potentially hostile than a more democratic country. If terrorist activity is seen as acts of war, then the countries affected would naturally arm themselves, and possibly take action against countries that are historically (or considered to be) sponsors of terrorists.

Well said.