Tony Blair: The Shocking Doctrine
Renowned military strategist and humanitarian interventionist Tony Blair is in the news again. In a not-at-all-self-serving speech to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, to mark the 10th anniversary of the formal coagulation of his oh-so-successful ‘Blair Doctrine‘, he said if at first you don’t succeed, kill, kill again:
Tony Blair has said the case for using military force to topple oppressive regimes is as strong as it ever was – despite events in Iraq and Afghanistan.
He said intervention was needed to tackle the growing “menace” of Islamic “extremism” across the Middle East.
But he also stressed the need for engagement with “progressive” Muslims.
‘Back in April 1999,’ said God’s Comic, ‘I thought that removal of a despotic regime was almost sufficient in itself to create the conditions for progress.’ Well, you know what ‘thought’ did, Tony? It followed a muck cart and thought it was a wedding. But hey, what can you do? Hundreds of thousands of people died but Tony’s doctrine was ‘almost’ sufficient. ‘But this battle cannot so easily be won,’ he said. No shit? Took you a while Tony but it’s good you finally realised.
Really though, it’s the basis of any experimentation. Your theory not fitting the results? Revisit it and make changes. Blair’s refined his and wants someone else to have another crack with it now he’s not allowed to kill people any more.
Then again, maybe he knows something we don’t. Maybe at this very moment, on a secret weapons testing range somewhere, they’re putting the final touches to a bomb that can distinguish between progressive and extremist Muslims…
Posted on April 23rd, 2009 at 2:18pm under Blair, T.W.A.T.
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What a Good Christian he is – kill them until they agree with you, eh Tony?
Never learning from your mistakes seems to as much part of the New Labour doctrine as doing whatever it takes to get votes – including mimicking the Nasty Party.
My favourite bit of one interview (possibly Today on BBC R4) was when Blair tried to claim that ‘Islamic extremism’ was nothing to do with what ‘the west’ (or ‘we’) had done, as if the colonisation – let alone decolonisation – of Algeria wasn’t least one significant factor in that country’s post-colonial history. But then he went on to say we had to ‘address the root causes’ – though his interpretation seemed to boil down to ‘they’re extremists because… well, just because really’. And he still can’t tell the difference between Hamas, Saddam Hussein, Saudi Arabia and the Taliban