The People vs. Ex-Generalissimo Blair [THE PEOPLE vs BLAIR, BUSH AND THE WAR ON TERROR]

MaCleans ^ | 11 February 2010 | Mark Steyn

[JLS]

The grilling the former British PM is getting over invading Iraq suits the enemy just fine

It’s supposed to be Sept. 12—that’s to say, the post-9/11 era. For over seven years the entire Western world was forced to live out a kind of geopolitical Groundhog Day in which Bush, Cheney, Rummy and the rest of the gang woke up each dawn to the same eternal Tuesday morning in September, the same long shadows of the Twin Towers, the same undying certainty of another six decades of hard, cold, martial winter. It wasn’t only the ideologically opposed among the campus left and the Euro-elites: the vast mass of a once supportive citizenry got ground down, too, exhausted by the very lingo of the “war on terror” and anxious to inter it with the Bush presidency. That’s why Barack Obama was cheered from Berkeley to Berlin. He offered liberation. To invert the old line, war may be interested in him, but he wasn’t interested in war. And in those heady days of late 2008 that seemed almost plausible.

[JLS]

Steyn writes today on the interogation of Tony Blair

[JLS]

Steyn discusses the interogation of Tony Blair.

[BigEdLB]

I heard they were holding some kind of hearings against Tony Blair at some location.... That location must be at this place...

[JLS]

Nice photo and the questioners of Blair are a bunch of idiots. And this shows how a leader on the left who shows leadership get treated.

[knews_hound]

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[prairiebreeze]

But when an advanced society now goes to war it is obliged to demonstrate its even-handedness to ever more absurd degrees, to the point where we have no dog in our own fight.

Precisely.

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BTTT

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Steyn writes brilliantly about our civilization's advanced degree of decay.

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