Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant'
6th September 2013, 09:35
This war-mongering, delusioned, sanctimonious c u next tuesday is the best guy they could find for the job of 'Middle East envoy'?? His analysis is absurd (ignoring his failures and crimes, instead stating the conflict within Islam itself was / is the real problem with Iraq and Afghanistan, and ignoring the hard-line islamists that are fighting against Assad).
..I swear, if this piece of shit gets the Thatcher treatment when he finally goes I'll ..do nothing but get fucking angry and shout a lot..
Protracted difficulties following the invasion of Iraq made the UK "hesitant" to intervene in Syria, former Prime Minister Tony Blair has said.
In a BBC interview, Mr Blair played down the influence of the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq on the UK Parliament's decision to block military action in Syria.
Iraq had shown that interventions can be "very difficult", he conceded.
But Syria, left unchecked, could become a potent source of extremists, he said.
Mr Blair, Middle East envoy for the Quartet of the United Nations, United States, European Union and Russia, warned that without foreign intervention, "you will have an Assad-dominated state, and that means in this instance an Iran-dominated state, probably around the borders of Lebanon and controlling most of the wealth of Syria.
"And then you'll have a larger geographical hinterland to the east that will be controlled by various Sunni groups, most of whom are likely in these circumstances to be extreme, and you could have a breeding ground for extremism actually much worse and much more potent than Afghanistan."
There was no question that chemical weapons had been used in Syria, he suggested, so UK MPs had not voted against intervention because they did not trust the government's assessment of the threat Syria poses.
He said: "It is an issue to do with the difficulty we encounter afterwards, and that is a really really important lesson.
"The truth is, the reason why Iraq makes us hesitant is because Iraq showed that when you intervene in the circumstances, where you have this radical Islamist issue, both on the Shia side and the Sunni side, you are going to face a very difficult, tough conflict."
There is a "fundamental battle about religion and politics within Islam", he continued, which "has vast consequences for our future security".
The UK and the US should support "the majority of people in the Muslim world in fact want religion in a sensible place in politics, not trying to dominate politics", he said.
(BBC News)
..I swear, if this piece of shit gets the Thatcher treatment when he finally goes I'll ..do nothing but get fucking angry and shout a lot..
Protracted difficulties following the invasion of Iraq made the UK "hesitant" to intervene in Syria, former Prime Minister Tony Blair has said.
In a BBC interview, Mr Blair played down the influence of the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq on the UK Parliament's decision to block military action in Syria.
Iraq had shown that interventions can be "very difficult", he conceded.
But Syria, left unchecked, could become a potent source of extremists, he said.
Mr Blair, Middle East envoy for the Quartet of the United Nations, United States, European Union and Russia, warned that without foreign intervention, "you will have an Assad-dominated state, and that means in this instance an Iran-dominated state, probably around the borders of Lebanon and controlling most of the wealth of Syria.
"And then you'll have a larger geographical hinterland to the east that will be controlled by various Sunni groups, most of whom are likely in these circumstances to be extreme, and you could have a breeding ground for extremism actually much worse and much more potent than Afghanistan."
There was no question that chemical weapons had been used in Syria, he suggested, so UK MPs had not voted against intervention because they did not trust the government's assessment of the threat Syria poses.
He said: "It is an issue to do with the difficulty we encounter afterwards, and that is a really really important lesson.
"The truth is, the reason why Iraq makes us hesitant is because Iraq showed that when you intervene in the circumstances, where you have this radical Islamist issue, both on the Shia side and the Sunni side, you are going to face a very difficult, tough conflict."
There is a "fundamental battle about religion and politics within Islam", he continued, which "has vast consequences for our future security".
The UK and the US should support "the majority of people in the Muslim world in fact want religion in a sensible place in politics, not trying to dominate politics", he said.
(BBC News)