Here come the Brits!

Global warming is such a threat to security that military planners must build it into their calculations, the head of the armed forces said on Monday.

Jock Stirrup, chief of the defence staff, said risks that climate change could cause weakened states to disintegrate and produce major humanitarian disasters or exploitation by armed groups had to become a feature of military planning.

But he said first analyses showed planners would not have to switch their geographical focus, because the areas most vulnerable to climate change are those where security risks are already high.

“Just glance at a map of the areas most likely to be affected and you are struck at once by the fact that they are exactly those parts of the world where we see fragility, instability and weak governance today.

“It seems to me rather like pouring petrol onto a burning fire,” Stirrup told the Chatham House think-tank in London.

So that’s O.K. then….and with Tony Blair the world’s Middle East envoy we are all safe and can sleep soundly.

America, the Brits have world covered, disarm and take a peace dividend! Long live the Empire!

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4 Responses

  1. I’m sorry, not to distract from the global warming conflagration, but is this guy’s name really Jock Stirrup? Reminds me of a guy who used to occasionally issue statements for the Pentagon – his name was Flex Plexico. Seriously.

  2. In Roman times, this guy’s name would most likely have been Biggus Dickus.

  3. phallus maximus?

  4. Henh.
    Or minimus.

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