30-Sep-2003, 05:48 AM
What is astonishing, Noel, is the hubris of both Blair and Bush as they both maintain, all evidence to the contrary, that they and only they were right! The key to Blair, it seems to me, is that he has tried to do a "Clinton" in the UK, meaning implmenting a centralist policy that if anything is what the Republicans/Tories should be doing if they were not so ideologically driven to absurd policies that harken back to the 19th C. Clinton has been called 'the best Republican president for decades" and not for nothing!
What gets me is that being Bush's lapdog has no percentage; the population here could not care less about the UK or Blair. The myth that Blair could have a beneficial influence on Bush is so much hogwash it smacks of wilfull deceit. The obvious fact is that this Administration will carry out the neocon 'New American Century' plan to dominate the world militarily, including the overturning of all regimes they do not like, and that includes any that aspire to popular government with social programs. We are indeed back to the 19th C. and since we have no historic sense of interest are fated to make the same errors which brought about regulation of corporations and legislation to curb the power of the immensely rich.
I agree that Blair is very quick on his feet and able to respond to any question more or less plausibly; the more the pity he cannot be his own man, but plays second fiddle to a moron!
What gets me is that being Bush's lapdog has no percentage; the population here could not care less about the UK or Blair. The myth that Blair could have a beneficial influence on Bush is so much hogwash it smacks of wilfull deceit. The obvious fact is that this Administration will carry out the neocon 'New American Century' plan to dominate the world militarily, including the overturning of all regimes they do not like, and that includes any that aspire to popular government with social programs. We are indeed back to the 19th C. and since we have no historic sense of interest are fated to make the same errors which brought about regulation of corporations and legislation to curb the power of the immensely rich.
I agree that Blair is very quick on his feet and able to respond to any question more or less plausibly; the more the pity he cannot be his own man, but plays second fiddle to a moron!
BillR