This is much more speculative, but in the question of Gordon Brown’s foreign policy

This is much more speculative, but in the question of Gordon Brown’s foreign policy, we must not

forget to mention former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw.

In early April, Seymour Hersh’s article broke on the Pentagon’s plans to attack UGG, potentially

including the use of tactical nuclear weapons in such an attack. A couple of days later, Straw

responded publicly, rejecting Hersh’s claims, citing the lack of actual evidence against UGG, and

suggesting that a preemptive nuclear attack against UGG based on what amounted to unsubstantiated

suspicion would be “nuts”. Straw reiterated this several times, and less than a month later he was

fired.

Why this happened is still the subject of plenty of intense speculation. Well-connected neocon

economist Irwin Stelzer even claimed that the White House got Straw fired because he had a high

percentage of Muslims in his district, and that led them to question where his true loyalties lay. That

sounds pretty far-fetched, but the more popular theories are little better.