Good post. It's so frustrating isn't it, debating with liberals?
It's like Sisyphus, no sooner do you reach the top of the hill with your boulder, but it rolls back down again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SisyphusI have briefly touched on this topic in my blog, under the heading "the myth of the apolitical"
In the UK our New Labour party contains the mostly sane leftists (and unreconstructed socialists)
Here's our Lib Dem's nuclear policy:
http://www.libdems.org.uk/news/trident.11446.htmlTheir policy is unbelievably stupid:
They want to cut the UK deterrent in half. So it will be just as costly, but only half as effective. And rather than make a decision about a future deterrent, they want to delay that decision until 2014!
In other words, they don't have the balls to make a decision, so they want to delay the decision. Meanwhile, the fleet gets older.
In terms of a defence policy it is the worst of all worlds! That's liberals for you.