Posted on 11/14/2006 6:06:55 AM PST by Rutles4Ever
This is a serious fracture. Blair, no doubt, took his cue from our tragic election that it was safe to jump back in the water of insanity with Bush essentially defeated. I suspect we're going to be hearing the same BS from France, Spain, Germany et al.
At any rate, the confluence of events in the past week, followed by this capitulation, portends a very bloody 2007 for the free world (or what's left of it).
Have President Bush and Blair lost their minds? How do they think 'talking' with Iran and Syria is going to help us? They are THE ENEMY!!!!!
The "if we just give the Palestinians a state the Islamists will chill out" crowd is dangerously delusional.
But it won't. Next.
ping
Actually it is genuine confidence that American is politically incapable of pursuing a military solution. If Iran had any fear in the matter they might actually stop (though it is unlikely). Their pursuit of the means to incinerate millions of their enemies is not the result of any fear, but pure ambition and desire to see human beings cooked, wholesale.
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Go to Hell, Blair! And take that damned horse with you.
(You Neo-Axis-co-founding bolshy bastard!)
This is a mistake. A very big mistake.
Fine. But don't expect us to bail you out when things go wrong.
What's truly sad is that these developments are going to lead a lot of conservatives (like myself) to just throw up their hands, shut the doors, bar the windows, and let Europe deal with their coming nuclear holocaust/Islamic caliphate. We sent our young men and women over there to shed their blood for freedom's sak,e and this is what we get?
Here's another take on exactly the same speech:
BLAIR: 'No softening' on Iran and Syria
I know it's oodles of fun to jump and down about them "dern foreigners" but hysteria is neither practical nor useful.
Regards, Ivan
Good luck with that, because, like, Iran and North Korea are such reasonable countries...
Why is that sad? Nations rise and fall due to their own actions. Europe has chosen the path of slow suicide, and is unrepentently marching down it. I can't shed a tear for a culture that won't fight or f@%* to save itself. If they want to sit back and sneer at us in snotty superiority while their own gates are being beaten down, so be it.
For what it's worth, this is one of them "dern foreign" newspapers reporting on the "not softening" of the policy to remove the deterrant of military action from the diplomatic equation.
For the past two years, the White House has stated clearly that "all options" are on the table with regard to Iran. If this doesn't undercut the White House, I don't know what does. Iran "living up to their obligations" means letting the U.N. back in to do their inspections. Whoop dee doo. That carries all the weight of a feather in a hurricane.
I would hasten to point out that Blair didn't say that military options were off the table. He said isolation was the first consequence.
Regards, Ivan
It's sad because the U.K. is a great friend of the United States, and as much as conservatives in the U.K. are disappointed over our elections, I, as a conservative, am disappointed that the British government thinks the light at the end of the tunnel isn't a speeding train. It's not about "fereigners" or what-have-you. If Britain won't stand with us, then there's simply nothing we can do to help stem the tide. It's not a statement of emotion, it's a statement of the cold truth. We can't do this WOT alone. It's impossible.
Blair said this or was it BJ Clinton?
Then I stand corrected. What's the general atmosphere in London? Would a detente with Iran and Syria have any legs with the population there?
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