BLAIR'S WARS. (Paperback.)

[Chas]

This excellent book by John Kampfner, really exposes the Gladstonian
idealism, naivety and hubris of Blair.
To quote the author, " It is some feat to go to war five times in six years".

[hannibal]

This excellent book by John Kampfner, really exposes the Gladstonian
idealism, naivety and hubris of Blair.
Perhaps John Kampfner should first clean under his own carpet before pointing with his finger at others? His TV documentary "The Dirty War" was so stupid that everyone from the Moon could see this. Instead of giving answers and analysis of the current situation he blamed the Jews for every Palestinian problem from A to YX. Like it is now their fault too that they are incompetent.

To quote the author, " It is some feat to go to war five times in six years".
Perhaps Kampfner should tell this to the victims of terrorist attacks, including about 100 Britons that have been killed in World Trade Center in 2001.

Sorry, I am always for a constructive critic of Blair and his government (or anyone else), but why is it that these critics almost always come from people who have even more butter on their head than Blair, Bush and their entourage(s)? According to Wikipedia the magazine New Statesman, he currently edits, is the magazine committed to "development, human rights and the environment, global issues the mainstream press often ignores". Excellent Mr Kampfner! But where have you been in 1980s or early 1990s, when you worked in East Berlin? I have never heard in any of his TV broadcast anything about East Germany or USSR being an un-democratic country (like some today are claiming that USA are almost a police state) nor I don't remember any of these left-wingers condemning USSR for violating human rights in Afghanistan in 1970s and 1980s.

Sorry Chas but this Western left-wing self-proclaimed experts are going on my nerves. He visits israel and Palestine once and already thinks he is an expert in Middle East affairs. While in 1960s, 1970s and 1980s most of them have been on a payroll of KGB and STASI.

Read Jacques Rossi book(s) - http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/people/highlights/001027_siberia.shtml

Read Edward Said "Orientalism" if you want a deep analysis of the Middle East.

But not this rubbish.

[Chas]

"Ignorance is bliss.":D

[hannibal]

"Ignorance is bliss."
And so is logic for some. Blair can be guilty for many things, but he cannot be guilty entirely for not modernizing the army. Modernization of the army is a long process, which takes decades and if I am to remember the Conservatives did not do anything in this field of area either, before Blair jumped on power. I remember PM Major and Foreign Minister Haig from 1990s. Completely useless bunch of geezers. Both Conservatives. Whatever that means in British political terminology.

But I admit one thing - Blair always picked an incompetent Minister of Defense. But one has to be fair even here: even some of the senior officers of the British Army lost touch with reality (kneeled unde political and public pressure), so what can you then expect from the minister himself?

[canard]

Anyone see/hear Bush+Blair's recorded 'private conversation' yet? Front page of the indie Chas. Two words - and I quote - 'Yo, Blair'!

Also, (Bush to Blair) 'Thanks for the jumper, it's awfully kind of you, I could tell you picked it out yourself':D

Where's the Madmonk when you need him?

On a serious note, it was clear who wears the trousers, and Blair was snubbed on his request to go out to the Middle East and play the big man; 'Yeah, Condi's going out there...' 'Well, that's, that's, that's....' exactly what you didn't want to hear, Tony?