Letters / Scared stiff
I had to smile at Brian Smith’s letter (‘Foaming at the mouth’, SN 31/7/14) – clearly, just another cyberNAT comment from Brian, who now appears devoid of articulate argument, intelligent comment and even the ability to read and understand what I wrote.
I am sure his comment that I claimed “that the UK intends to withdraw from NATO” was a deliberate fallacious statement, made to detract from the truth. Clearly I made no such statement, not so amusing Brian’s deliberate dishonesty! I feel it morally reprehensible that someone in Brian’s position should so deliberately misinform. Some ethic for an official archivist at the Shetland Museum and Archives!
For those interested in real historical fact, now just in the public domain, read “Map of Cold War targets in the UK:
http://calculating.wordpress.com/2014/06/17/map-of-cold-war-targets-in-the-uk/
Probable nuclear targets’ in 1970s: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/05/uk-government-top-secret-list-probable-nuclear-targets-1970s
A truly terrifying scenario which unfortunately, under Putin’s expansionist Russia, is a situation which may one day be repeated. Scaremongering? Yes, I am scared stiff for the future, without a powerful “united” defence in the UK. Scotland alone would rather remind me of Norway 1940, independent, proud, strategically important, and wholly vulnerable. Norway was soon under Hitler’s heal and Nazi tyranny. Let’s hope history never repeats, sadly it often does.
Ian Tinkler
Clousta
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