Prometheus Unbound
I was going to do something about Tony Blair doing his Churchill circa 1935 bit the other day. But Flying Rodent’s done it so much better.
I’d just like to note this from Blair’s speech:
“Analogies with the past are never properly accurate, and analogies especially with the rising fascism can be easily misleading but, in pure chronology, I sometimes wonder if we’re not in the 1920s or 1930s again.
“This ideology now has a state, Iran, that is prepared to back and finance terror in the pursuit of destabilising countries whose people wish to live in peace.â€Â
Hmmm. Sometimes analogies (like Blair’s) are never properly accurate but (like Blair’s) not easily misleading either. Blair says Iran = Nazi Germany. It’s as clear as Blair’s conscience. We’ve been here before and its an essential plank in the case for war: Step 1 - dehumanise your enemy.
You have to wonder if Blair isn’t even more dangerous now than he was when his was in power. His potential as a propagandist now that he’s free to say all kinds of whacky, ill-considered crap (well, whackier, even more ill-considered crap) now that he’s not PM is terrifying. An influential cross-section of American opinion and power clearly love him. He’s like David Icke with better contacts.
Anyway, for God’s sake, don’t think of Iranians as individual men, women and children trying to live under a totalitarian regime. That way madness lies. Instead, it’s much more comforting to think of them as a homogenous herd in willing thrall to evil. That way you won’t be put off your dinner when the bombs begin to fall.
Posted on October 23rd, 2007 at 9:17 am
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What can you say of him?
Out of office because he lied to take his country into a Middle East war.
Subsequently appointed Middle East peace envoy.
Subsequnt to that, agitates for further war in the Middle East.
Evil, cynical, utterly unprincipled man.
Incidentally, while it is repressive, and truncated in its democracy (though rather less so than several regimes to which Tony sold arms) Iran is not totalitarian. It’s a point that may need making in the months to come.
Iran is not totalitarian. It’s a point that may need making in the months to come.
That’s a very good point. We will, of course, be apologists for, and appeasers of, terrorists. Again.
But… but… history teaches us that we are honour-bound to give them the gift of democracy.
“He’s like David Icke with better contacts.”
Good line. Wish I’d thought of it!
Let’s hope the Churchill analogy ends here - unlike Blair’s analogies of every place America wants to bomb being analogous to Nazi Germany. How many Nazi-like nations are there out there for God’s sake!
Surely incitement to commit mass murder is a crime? Why can’t the pigs in Connaught Square do their fucking job?
How many Nazi-like nations are there out there for God’s sake!
A new one was born last Friday, in Lisbon.
Right. I think I need to instigate some sign-posting around here.
IanP, would you be so kind as to post your comment again but frame it in either of the following tags:
<SARCASM> … </SARCASM>
or
<DEADLY SERIOUS> … </DEADLY SERIOUS>
If you mean the latter, can you let me know when they start rounding up the Jews, Gypsies and homosexuals. I might want to write a strong letter of complaint to my MP.
How many Nazi-like nations are there out there for God’s sake!
A new one was born last Friday, in Lisbon.
Totalitarianism, whether it be of the left or the right, is exactly the same.
http://tinyurl.com/2z3fkn
When I was young, I thought that saying hugely exaggerated things and then insisting everybody else believed them ws a clever thing to do.
I gave it up, though. Fortunately we didn’t have the internet then and my only other option would have been pop music journalism.
There must be some way to point out to the world - perhaps with exaggerated emphasis - that Tony Blair is a nutjob warmonger. Something like a picture of the cretin with the caption `This man is a lying war-criminal; treat everything he says with the utmost suspicion` - then mail it to the London embassy of every nation. And every news organisation…hmm, yes…
Analogies with the present is probably off-base because, presently the Badr Army control Basra, where British troops sit at the airport and wait to fly home, and the odd incoming from Shia faction who have a spare round to deliver after a day’s work.
History will judge this clown as worse than the Madness of King George (eh!). That is; if there is history after his fuck-ups.
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m37466&hd=&size=1&l=/
Meant Sadr & Co.
I really do wonder how it is that Iran can be talked about like this (and trust me, I’m no apologist for Iran) when Saudi Arabia seems to get a complete pass! It’s mindboggling. It really does fit into the definition of totalitarian, and yet… Gah, I can’t even express how I feel about it… Argh!
“now”?
The Islamic Revolution was 28 years ago! So in German terms, this is 1961.