Box office film success…
Flippant remarks form several quarters…
Disgraceful!!
It was in full view on BBC a few years ago, when the then Labour Party candidate for UK Prime Minister was chastised for not answering quickly that if Britain came under threat, he would quickly press the red button! We make it sound so straightforward right? “press the red button”. Like just turning the light switch on for dinner! Never mind the horrific loss of lives that would be involved. Ok, for Corbyn, it was massively naive of him, to think that level of politics can come without getting your hands dirty! Of course, to be the PM, you cannot have any equivocation about defending your country. There’s no reasoning acceptable, no hesitancy. That is the job requirement. So, yes, the UK electorate would deem you unelectable for the office. It is not for the faint hearted nor the reasonable. Period!
But we cannot possibly get to the point where governments and leaders begin to casually threaten nuclear war! For heaven’s sake!!!! Seriously??!!!
This isn’t child’s play!!!
It is, and should be, an absolute NO GO ZONE. A topic that should never, under any circumstances, ever come up. Not even implied! It is unthinkable. And for what? Wipe humankind off the face of the earth to take a stand?
Perhaps the world must come to an end at some point. But should it be by our (humans) hand?
But then, is it not unthinkable that anyone came up with the idea and executed it i.e. made a nuclear bomb. Did we run out of diseases such as cancer, that we could devote time & funds, to find a cure for?
And now, we make movies (Oppenheimer?) and these plumb actors & actresses pick up gongs for their performance. What a world we live in!!!