Re: Tony Blair; Middle East star player


"Dan Holdsworth" <dan1701usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:56:57 -0700, Pete L
<peterlavington@xxxxxxxxxxx>
was popularly supposed to have said:

I suppose Blair has all kinds of abilities, however, I suspect he
has
very little idea of the history of the Middle East nor has any idea
of
how the Arab mind works.

I suspect that history hasn't got all that much to do with the
problems
that region has; the trouble is that the locals have never had to
learn
to put up with each other without either living so far apart that
they
hardly ever met their neighbours, or without having an
overwhelmingly
powerful government apparatus promising rapid injustice to all in
the
event of trouble.

This is part of the reason for the current bloodshed in Iraq; the
American invasion didn't actually cause the insurrection as removed
the
Baathist regime which was bloodily

preventing it from getting going.
Saddam was mostly the cause of the trouble, since the Shi'ite
faction
were very effectively oppressed by his regime, but he was also the
only
thing keeping the peace as well.

Remove Saddam, and all of a sudden the local network of oppression
which
used to promise bloody death to anyone starting trouble (and death
for
their family also) wasn't there, and since the American forces
didn't
secure arms dumps on their way in, and didn't recruit the Iraqi army
on
the way in either, the assorted scum had plenty of toys to use in
their
fight.

Put it another way - imagine a few years ago
having somebody like Arafat coming over to N Ireland and having a
chat
with Adams and Paisley and masterminding a peace plan. The very
idea
of Blair doing anything other than further damage in the Middle
East
is laughable.

Look on the bright side, it stops the odious, self-deluding little
tit
from following in the footsteps of Kinnock and landing himself a
sinecure in the EU, and there's always the very slight chance that
some
enterprising sniper might put an end to the man, which would frankly
be
a fitting if not entirely deserved end to him.

I agree. He deserves to be strung up, shooting is too good for him.



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