Posted on 06/30/2007 8:59:02 PM PDT by ejdrapes
Blair:
‘The idea that as a Muslim in this country that you don’t have the freedom to express your religion or your views, I mean you’ve got far more freedom in this country than you do in most Muslim countries,’ Blair told Observer columnist Will Hutton, who presents the documentary. ‘The reason we are finding it hard to win this battle is that we’re not actually fighting it properly. We’re not actually standing up to these people and saying, “It’s not just your methods that are wrong, your ideas are absurd. Nobody is oppressing you. Your sense of grievance isn’t justified.”
Bush:
ReligionofPeaceMumblemumblemarblemouth.
So much more sensible than the new PM, who, I heard, wants to “open a dialog” with Muslims. Yeah, right; that’ll work.
Blair get’s it but I don’t think the new PM does.
Three Cheers for Blair. It needs to be said and repeated over and over.
Yet Blair expects the Israelis to give the Islamists everything they want.
Ah, yes, dialog/ One side uses words, the other bombs. Unfortunately. Brown will talk more and more of dislogue, and the other side will replay with carbombs.
“So much more sensible than the new PM, who, I heard, wants to “open a dialog” with Muslims. Yeah, right; that’ll work.
That’s the same line Blair took when he was PM. Now that he’s out of office, he gives his real opinion.
He would not have been so reviled if he had not been the prisoner of focus groups and polls while in office.
>> unless mainstream society confronts the threat.
Nudge, nudge, ... wake up... psst, wake up...
Don't the Brits call the bathroom the loo?
Rush said it best.
Peace is NEVER bartered. In every single instance where peace is attempted by treaty, bloodshed, crime and oppression have resulted. Pakistan and India, Palestine and Israel; simply stated, more die in the mini-battles between cease-fires than would have died in a full out war.
So, my opinion matches Rush; if it’s full out war they want; give it to them. Only when they have been decimated, when a huge percentage of their population is killed, their cities laid waste, and they are truly utterly, completely and totally crushed will peace be successfully negotiated.
Consider Japan and Germany as examples. When the country was forced to beg for mercy, to give UNCONDITIONAL surrender; was peace finally obtained.
Most? I suspect Blair means "all."
'The reason we are finding it hard to win this battle is that we're not actually fighting it properly. We're not actually standing up to these people and saying, "It's not just your methods that are wrong, your ideas are absurd. Nobody is oppressing you. Your sense of grievance isn't justified."'
Hate to break it to you Tony, but explaining to Islamists that their methods are wrong and their ideas absurd isn't going to win you any battles. ....or wars, for that matter. The only language the enemy undestands is force and strength, so appeals to reason aren't going to cut it. Reason only works with reasonable people.
But to his credit, Blair isn't babbling like a moron about Islam being "a religion of peace and love."
Sad that Tony had to wait til he’s OUT OF OFFICE to be able to say these things!!! Keep it up, Tony!
The new PM is WEAK-KNEE-ED LIBERAL!
Give me a break....your hatred toward President Bush sounds like the lefties and the moonbats.
Give the Brits back their guns, Blair! But it’s a little late for that isn’t it.
Too bad the “loopy loos” won’t know reason until they’re blown to bits.
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