Like hell he get it.
He has always made excuses for Islam and never addressed that the problem is a fundamental interpretation of the religion, and practicing it as written in the Koran and the example set by Muhammed in the Hadiths.
Blair spouts all the baloney of a hijacked religion extremists etc. At one time this idiot was telling the Brits it was about grievances.
The very fact that he thinks you can reconcile Christianity and Islam shows he doesn't understand Islam. - Tom
Sorry to disagree, Cap’n, but I think he DOES ‘get it.’
He DID buck a lot of opposition to stand with Bush on Iraq.
And yes, he’s a crackerjack speaker. You have to be, to stand up in Commons and get bombarded with hostile questions every day.
The British Empire was in the Middle East for what, 200 years? They only left in the 1950s. One has to think that their collective experience should count for something.
And is it not true that the current management of the US forces is following much the same policies that the Brits were already doing down by Basra?
Naw, much as I am glad that I live far upwind of Yale, I do not disparage Tony Blair, even if he was Labour’s man.