The Idiots Are Still In Control

SEE HERE Here is Thomas Sowell again, doing what he does so well, talking common sense, a skill all to seldom seen these days. "Disarmament" is fundamentally an incoherent idea in the real world. Sowell points that out. One has to have a suicide wish is this world to try disarmament. It could only work if men were fundamentally good. God may have intended them to be and created them that way, but they quickly queered the deal. Chesterton says that original sin is one truth about man that is empirically observable. So exactly why would you trust a nation to disarm? Did Germany disarm after WWI or did they do everything they could not to comply with the terms of disarmament? Do you really trust people who are militarists at heart to comply? Good luck. I've been looking for a buyer for this bridge I have for sale in Brooklyn.

In conclusion Sowell says:

International disarmament has long been a favorite crusade of the left, before as well as after the age of nuclear weapons. The period between the two World Wars were full of popular disarmament agreements and renunciations of war.

In fact, such pious agreements contributed to the outbreak of war. Because some nations adhered to these agreements and others did not, the military advantage swung to the latter, who started the war-- in which tens of millions of human beings died.