Posted on 09/08/2021 5:05:21 AM PDT by Cronos
Tony Blair has said it is clear America has a "very limited appetite for military engagement" and that other Western nations need to figure out how to deal with "radical Islam" without the US.
The former prime minister called on world leaders to come together to develop a common strategy against extremists ahead of the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks.
In a speech to the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) military think tank, he said "radical Islam" continues to represent a "first-order security threat" that left unchecked "will come to us".
..."Like revolutionary communism, it operates in many different arenas and dimensions; and like it, its defeat will come ultimately through confronting both the violence and the ideology, by a combination of hard and soft power," he added.
While Mr Blair said it was understandable Western societies and politicians are "deeply averse" to armed forces' casualties, he said boots on the ground are needed as using drone strikes and special forces in response to terrorist attacks has "limitations".
"If the enemy we're fighting knows that the more casualties they inflict, the more our political will erodes, then the incentive structure is plain," he said.
Working without America is a particular challenge to European nations, he said, "and for these purposes, Britain is part of Europe, like it or not".
..."One of the most depressing things I have heard regularly articulated over the past weeks is the idea that we are foolish in believing that Western notions of liberal democracy and freedom are exportable or will ever take root except in the somewhat decadent terrain of Western society," he added.
He said we should never forget "that our values are still those which free people choose".
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Tony Blair’s previous forays vs radical islam has been to try to love ‘em to death.
But I thought you solved the problem by inviting them into your country; putting them on the dole; letting them have multiple wives and breed like rats.
We’ve been protecting their ass for over a century. Imagine them having to protect themselves!!!! OH MERCY!
Easy answer. Sell the muzzies the tope they will use to hang you.
Ah.., well, quite right old boy. But um... well it DID prove to be a bit of a sticky wicket, wot?
No matter . I’m sure the whole lot will be sorted out by and by.
I say would you care for a spot of tea? A brandy perhaps?
Yes, other Western nations need to contribute more against the problem. I doubt they will.
Next time the UK needs some help, we’ll say sorry but that’s our dog’s grooming day.
***how to deal with “radical Islam” without the US. ***
Too late! Radical islam is already inside the walls of your nations.
What?
Sir James Frasier said it in his 1922 book THE GOLDEN BOUGH.
“With such examples before us we need not hesitate to
believe that many tribes have felt no scruple or delicacy in
observing a custom which tends to wipe out a single family.
To attribute such scruples to them is to commit the common, the
perpetually repeated mistake of judging the savage by the standard
of European civilisation.
If any of my readers set out with the
notion that all races of men think and act much in the same way as
educated Englishmen, the evidence of superstitious belief and custom
collected in this work should suffice to disabuse him of so
erroneous a prepossession.”
Tony Blair has received millions from the arabs. He is the Bill Clinton of England as far as corruption goes.
Ya happy, Cronos? The UN/globalists (with their shaky alliance with China) are succeeding in bringing down the US!
Had we done the right thing on 9/12/01, reduced Mecca to a glassed-over, radioactive smoking ruin, Islam would no longer exist.
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