US Right Turns On Blair For Being 'Soft On Terror'

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 7-25-2005 | Alec Russell

[Dog Gone]

Usually the Telegraph isn't quite so bitter toward America. This article surprises me.

[datura]

Tony Blair is the ELECTED PRESIDENT of the World's Socialist party. For US right wingers to even like him at all should be the surprise.

[DefiantZERO]

Amount of times the terms "Right" or "right wing" is used in this article: 5

Amount of times the term "left wing" would have been used if this was an article about the liberal approach to immigration: 0

[DefiantZERO]

What the hell are you talking about?

[Shawndell Green]

Well his top topics for the G8 summit were global warming and giving taxpayer money to African crooks with not the slightest attention to terrorism.

[freeangel]

I have a great deal of respect for the UK and the way it is tracking the latest terrorists. Certainly, they are doing a quickeer job than the rudolph fiasco here.

[datura]

The Socialist internationale has an elected president. He is TONY BLAIR. He was elected to that position prior to the last British election - it is a position completely separate from English politics.

[JeffersonRepublic.com]

We don't need Blair's left-wing policies to allow British grown terrorists to enter the US.

A Visa should be required for Europeans to enter the US.

Holtz
JeffersonRepublic.com

[datura]

I take it you've never heard of them?

Here in the US, our chapter is the Democratic Socialists of America. Over 70 members of Congress are card carrying members of the DSA. (The DSA is also a subchapter of the Communist Party.)

[datura]

A Visa should be required for Europeans ANYONE to enter the US.

[Cicero]

This article is highly exaggerated. The Weekly Standard is not an organ of the Bush administration. Sure, a lot of conservatives have criticized the Brits for allowing so many Muslim terrorists refuge. But they have also praised them for catching and/or identifying the perps so quickly.

Conservatives also have praised the Brits for standing up to terror instead of knuckling under, like the Spanish.

Smart American conservatives have always been in two minds about Tony Blair. We appreciate his allying with us in the Iraq war, but we have never approved of his domestic policies.

[satchmodog9]

I love how the Weekly Standard is shown to be the example of the right wing American press. What about the right wing LA Times, Boston Globe Chicago Libune et al.I forgot, the right is not allowed to voice its opinion.

[DefiantZERO]

Oh, and here I was getting concerned, thinking that something new was about. I pay little attention to that farce of an organization, they do little but whine about various this and thats. Much like the UN, its members have some clout, but the organization itself means little.

And let me tell you, American friends, we're far better off with Tony Blair than Michael "I've got a boner for the EU" Howard and Charles "Open the borders!" Kennedy. Call him the lesser of 3 evils. Too bad the public were too bloody stupid to vote UKIP..

[JeffersonRepublic.com]

I approve of the correction...thank you.

Holtz
JeffersonRepublic.com

[Mr. Mojo]

The Heritage Foundation .....wants Britain to adopt a policy of zero-tolerance against radical Islamic preachers.

A reasonable suggestion, and one that any Western nation ignores at their peril.

[TASMANIANRED]

Blair has done a great job of fighting terrorism elsewhere.

Turned a blind eye to the insiders.

[popdonnelly]

We haven't criticized Blair as much as the left-wingers in his own party have.

[mmercier]

>> President George W Bush's administration take the dramatic step of ending the 1986 visa waiver programme which allows Britons and citizens of most other western European states three months in the US without a visa.

There be a good idea.

Lets close the door and see if Britannia surrenders, before all their Islamist cells emigrate here; Which they are likely doing these last few days. No doubt we have left the door wide open for them.

Then again, they can just bus in via Mexico city...

Hohum.

[popdonnelly]

Can we just get on with the business of fighting terrorists, without sniping back and forth? I get my fill of that from the idiot liberals and leftists.