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Originally Posted by Pierre
Did I say it was his fault? And I'm referencing Israel and Palaestine here, his track record over the past 8 years in the position has been pretty low on positive results, wouldn't you say.
No doubt you will advise me of one of his great successes?
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There has been no progress because the Palestinians and Israel do not want peace. That's not Tony Blair's fault.
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Originally Posted by Chris
The Middle East is full of nasty, powerful men. The wisdom of our fathers was to ensure that each nasty, powerful man was no more or less powerful than the one next door. They still went about doing nasty things, but they were confined, and their nastiness was limited.
When we invaded Iraq, we destroyed that delicate balance. The outcome has been chaos, much more nastiness, and a lot less confinement. We freed the Kurds from Saddam's chemical weapons only so they could get beheaded by nutters from an Islamofascist death cult. Yay us.
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I am not sure I agree with you on the limited nastiness. Gassing 1000's of men, women and children is not a minor misdemeanor.
I agree with you about the balance being broken and that the genie is well and truly out of the bottle though.
Maybe in hindsight, the west should have just watched Saddam kill his own people and said "stop or we will say stop again"