'Bye, 'bye, Bliar. The ME is going to miss you. Not.

[TAE]

Great politicians, like Blair, know when the time has come to help manipulate such groundswells.

There is so much wrong with that sentence.

 

[Lock&Light]

There is so much wrong with that sentence.

Very enlightening, I sure. Perhaps you could give some clues as to what you're on about.

 

[ZAMB]

I don't know how much credit Blair deserves for the NI thing. I mean OK he jolllied them along in the immediate sense, but I think the resolution has more to do with the internal dynamics of NI politics and the waning level of popular support for armed resistance than anything from this side of the water.

I think the people of NI were the main force in securing peace in NI. As for Bliar's new job, making him envoy to the ME is a joke - perhaps they think this farce will help him avoid the war crimes trial which I sincerely hope is in his future.

I liked the Nero analogy - I think it could also be compared to making the henchman of the IOF [International Organisation of Foxes] in charge of so-called "peace negotiations" with the henhouse. Why should anyone trust him in the ME, with his lousy record of brown-nosing, and doing the bidding of, the US and Israel govts?

 

[ZAMB]

Article on the reasons Bliar should not be let loose in the ME.

Adrian Hamilton: The wrong man for the wrong job

Even if Tony Blair had no 'form' in the Middle East, he'd still be wrong for this post
Published: 28 June 2007

Enough has been said of the outrage at the thought of Tony Blair's appointment as envoy to the Middle East, considering the damage he has done there. "Obscene" is the only appropriate word, or "grotesque" if you prefer to see the world in terms of black comedy.

What hasn't been said enough, however, is precisely why it is the wrong appointment in terms of the job itself. Even if Iraq had never happened and Blair had not supported Israel's invasion of Lebanon - even, indeed, if Blair had no "form" in the Middle East, he would still be the wrong man for the post.

http://comment.independent.co.uk/columnists_a_l/adrian_hamilton/article2717248.ece