Masopher's Mind

I studied Tony Blair a few years ago. Really studied him, his Scottish birth his vaudervillian/politician dad his psychophant religious Oxford background and keen eye for backdoor deals and points of advantage. Tony Blair has no strong stance except the one that pays the most and has no position except for the one that his paymaster expects him to take: a perfectly mediocre lawyer but stellar politician. I know Blair for all his flaws which are actually strengths for lesser men. However saying Iraq was illegal because there is no precedent is a laughable and ludicrous claim by senior judges in the UK. The men who dodder around with parochial claims, theft and manslaughter display the true narrowness of their vision. History is repleat with precedents about attempts failiures and successes at regime change. The Jacobian attempts by Rome and Paris the german installation of Vichy and subsequent allied installation of the DeGaulle provisional government, the Japanese constitution created at the behest of a conquering American military. Maybe the soft headed English intellectuals are more used to gentleman spies, drowned frogmen and third party assassinations bringing about regime changes but to hound the former primeminister and the British Government for not inventing a better excuse than ones previously used to go to war is an example of the self imposed ignorant decadance England finds itself in.
Now that the war is over and the dirty work is done I see this as a weakminded attempt to distance the UK from any blowback and to cozy up to North Africa and the Arabian peninsula or even to make amends with the pusilanemous French who are driving the rising EU. Blaming the persons of Tony Blair, George Bush and Richard Cheyney will not detract from the fact that America and the UK went to war because populist outrage fear and vengance. It’s a disservice to all who have died on both sides to pretend that our silence all these years was because it just wasn’t the right time to speak out.
Iraq enters another year of shaky democracy. Bombs still go off regularly as Saddams old guard goes down fighting and interested parties plant seeds of influence and disharmony in the Shiite and Sunni populations.
Eggs were broken but were omlettes made? If Britain’s so called democratic institutions are anything to go by; Iraqi success means that more horrific unjust things will happen and 8 years will go by before anyone makes a move but only to shirk responsibility and point fingers. Was it Blair’s war? yes it was but it is ours as well.