Date published: 2006/03/21
The BBC says:
Tony Blair has defended Britain's involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan, by arguing that only an interventionist stance can confront terrorism head-on.
What happened in those countries was crucial for UK security. "This is not a clash between civilisations, but a clash about civilisation," he said.
He attacked those against his vision of an "activist" foreign policy, saying this was a battle about "modernity".
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Mr Blair insisted that controversial military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan were not distant entanglements but essential to Britain's future security."We must reject the thought that somehow we are the authors of our own distress, that if only we altered this decision or that, this extremism would fade away," he said.
"In my judgement, the only way to win is to recognise this phenomenon is indeed a global ideology, to see all areas in which it operates as linked and to defeat it by values and ideas set in opposition to those of the terrorists."
Blair is becoming more and more pathetic in his post-hoc justification for his illegal war in Iraq. Needless to say, there were no terrorists in Iraq before he launched this crazy war with his buddy Bush, now they are endemic. And instead of having a weak state run by a lunatic dictator, we now have a failed state descending into anarchy. If this is the best that Blair can do he should resign now, we do not need him and his crackpot "activist" war mongering any more.
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