Tony Blair: The Whole Middle East is Under Threat — But It Is Not Our Fault
The Unhived Mind
Tony Blair: The Whole Middle East is Under Threat — But It Is Not Our Fault
June 15, 2014 • 11:43AM
http://larouchepac.com/node/31058
At one minute before midnight, London time, on June 14, the London Telegraph posted a lengthy, rambling and hysterical essay by Tony Blair under that title, reminiscent of Boris Godunov’s hysterical screams in the opera, that “It wasn’t me! It wasn’t me!” that killed the little Tsarevich.
“The civil war in Syria with its attendant disintegration is having its predictable and malign effect. Iraq is now in mortal danger. The whole of the Middle East is under threat,” Blair writes.
“We will have to rethink our strategy towards Syria; support the Iraqi Government in beating back the insurgency; whilst making it clear that Iraq’s politics will have to change for any resolution of the current crisis to be sustained. Then we need a comprehensive plan for the Middle East that correctly learns the lessons of the past decade. In doing so, we should listen to and work closely with our allies across the region, whose understanding of these issues is crucial and who are prepared to work with us in fighting the root causes of this extremism which goes far beyond the crisis in Iraq or Syria.”
He spends page after page trying to deny that his illegal Iraq war was to blame. “It is inevitable that events in Mosul have led to a rerun of the arguments over the decision to remove Saddam Hussein in 2003. The key question obviously is what to do now….
“However there is also no doubt that a major proximate cause of the takeover of Mosul by ISIS is the situation in Syria. To argue otherwise is wilful….
“As for how these events reflect on the original decision to remove Saddam, if we want to have this debate, we have to do something that is rarely done: put the counterfactual, i.e., suppose in 2003, Saddam had been left running Iraq. Now take each of the arguments against the decision in turn….” And so on and so forth.
“The reality is that the whole of the Middle East and beyond is going through a huge, agonising and protracted transition. We have to liberate ourselves from the notion that we have caused this. We haven’t. We can argue as to whether our policies at points have helped or not; and whether action or inaction is the best policy and there is a lot to be said on both sides. But the fundamental cause of the crisis lies within the region not outside it.”
He closes: “Iraq is part of a much bigger picture. By all means argue about the wisdom of earlier decisions. But it is the decisions now that will matter. The choices are all pretty ugly, it is true. But for 3 years we have watched Syria descend into the abyss and as it is going down, it is slowly but surely wrapping its cords around us pulling us down with it. We have to put aside the differences of the past and act now to save the future.”
Or, if you don’t know about Boris Godunov, just think Lady Macbeth.
theunhivedmind says:
This ISIS is just an attempt by New Venice (Britain) to lower the power of the Maliki government which really serves Iran. Once a military operation takes place the USAF will have air superiority and this will do away with Iran even further. Ask yourself why Julian Assange’s clan attacked Maliki and then you will know that Wikileaks is an arm of MOSSAD.
-= The Unhived Mind