“I find nothing barfy about this at all.
Although I don’t agree with his domestic politics, Tony Blair was a good friend to the U.S. in our time of need and I won’t forget it.”
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Has anyone here listened to Blair’s Labor Party speech when he first accepted its nomination to become the PM back in 1996? It was broadcast on C-SPAN. The speech sounded almost like the platform for the US Democratic Party when POTUS Bill Clinton accepted the Dem’s nomination for a second run at the White House.
Blair was also very much in favor of Britain’s handgun ban, among other things.
He’s a socialist.
Well, of course he’s a socialist. Britain is a socialist country and Tony Blair was the leader of the socialist (Labour) party.
As I said, I don’t agree at all with his domestic politics. However, on the War on Terror, there was no greater ally at our side and no greater spokesman. All of which he did at great political peril to himself.
There are many things in the immediate post-9/11 era that would have been much more difficult for us, if not impossible, if Tony Blair had not been for the special relationship between the U.S. and Britain and stood with us through thick and thin.
The farewell thread on FR when Tony Blair left office was incredible.
Even though, yes, he is a socialist.