Still hasn't quite got it, yet
From today's Observer:
But just when you start thinking this is really good news at last, you read on:
No, Tony. The reason for helping places like that is not to save the West from being threatened, but that no one should have to live in that kind of hell. The thing that threatens the West is that for too long we have been content to maintain our privileged lifestyle at the cost of millions living in poverty and oppression, and have propped up the corrupt regimes which enslave those people, and which eventually, inevitably, collapse into anarchy and chaos.
MENE, MENE, TEKEL, PARSIN.
Tony Blair will tomorrow set out a new world vision for tackling poverty and the threat from failing states as he tries to refocus the war on terror on the root causes of conflict.
But just when you start thinking this is really good news at last, you read on:
The Prime Minister's Strategy Unit is drawing up plans for more proactive intervention in countries on the verge of collapse, which risk becoming havens for drugs, crime and terrorism that threaten the West.
No, Tony. The reason for helping places like that is not to save the West from being threatened, but that no one should have to live in that kind of hell. The thing that threatens the West is that for too long we have been content to maintain our privileged lifestyle at the cost of millions living in poverty and oppression, and have propped up the corrupt regimes which enslave those people, and which eventually, inevitably, collapse into anarchy and chaos.
MENE, MENE, TEKEL, PARSIN.
2 Comments:
Preach it bro!
Good news about the Bible's return. I was watching the Panorama report on Darfur last night. A British foreign office guy pointed out how unwise it would be to put military intervention in that area because it could distablise (spelling?) a region the size of Western Europe. It sounds as if the mess in Iraq might have taught them to hold back a bit more. Hope so anyway. Although I suspect Blair probably had a lot of Foreign office people telling him to leave Iraq alone as well.
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