British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Tuesday will call for a global, interventionist approach to confront terrorism head on and win a battle over values and ideas.
"This is not a clash between civilizations, it is a clash about civilization," Blair will say in a speech this afternoon, according to extracts released by his official spokesman.
"'We' is not the West. 'We' are as much Muslim as Christian or Jew or Hindu. 'We' are those who believe in religious tolerance, openness to others, to democracy, liberty and human rights administered by secular courts," he will say.
The speech, due to be given at a Reuters Newsmaker event, is the first of three that Blair plans to deliver on terrorism and the significance of Iraq and Afghanistan. The second will be given in Australia and the third in the United States.
"The only way to win is to recognize this phenomenon is a global ideology; to see all areas in which it operates as linked and to defeat it by values and ideas set in opposition to those of the terrorists," the speech will say.
Shit--that's insane. That's total paranoia--he speaks like terrorists blow stuff up around the world every day--or even every week.
They really don't.
Iraq is a hotspot and so is Palestisrael along with Afghanistan--all for obvious reasons. There's also terror in the Philippines and we have terror being practiced by what I call Nigerian oil rebels, too. But the likelihood of the recent coup in the Philippines and the Nigerian terrorists both being connected to the terror the Taleban are practicing in Afghanistan AND the terror in Iraq is absurd. Especially when in each case no proof of direct Al Qeada involvement has been provided (AQ may be in Iraq, [http://thepete.com/theblog/go.php?http://thepete.com/iraqi-insurgents-not-al-qaeda/|but a tiny fraction of the insurgents are actually from outside Iraq]).
Blair's insane rhetoric is like the father of the house waging a jihad on a minor cockroach infestation.
Blair acts as though our civilization is so weak that it is about to fall apart with the slightest antagonism--Blair is a coward.
In fact, anyone who says that terror is a threat to our way of life is a coward.
If you're one of them, you have to seriously examine just what you're afraid of. A few thousand terrorists with NO nukes is a threat? I'm not saying we shouldn't go after them--but for Christ's sake--why are our morals going out the window?
W. Bush, himself, said during the 2000 presidential debates that he didn't think America should go around telling the world how to be. This is precisely what Blair now says is the best thing for the West to do.
This goes against everything America stands for.
Here are some other interesting bits from that article:
Blair's spokesman played down fears the speech might ring alarm bells in Iran, which is locked in a battle of wills with the United States and Europe over its nuclear program.
OH, like the UK isn't going to play American lapdog with Iran? Why doesn't the article include a reference to the UK being part of the "we" there? The UK won't sit by and watch [http://thepete.com/the-real-reason-well-invade-iran/|Iran open their oil exchange] (Even if [http://news.goldseek.com/GoldenJackass/1142891085.php|it has been postponed]).
More from that article:
"The terrorists know that if they are to succeed either in Iraq or Afghanistan or indeed Lebanon or anywhere else wanting to go the democratic route, then the choice of a modern future for the Arab or Muslim world is dealt a potentially mortal blow," Blair will say.
Yes, because the only "modern" future is one with democracy at the helm! We can't let the Arab world decide for themselves what they want! DEMOCRACY IS IT, FOLKS!!
Man, didn't Tony ever watch the classic Star Trek when he was growing up? The Prime Directive was there for a reason and Captain Kirk was a fictional character.
More:
"Likewise if they fail and those countries become democracies and make progress, then not merely is that a blow against their whole value system but it is the most effective message against their wretched propaganda about America, the West and the rest of the world."
Again, because the West is PERFECT and the ONLY MODEL for civilization that extremist Islam could be against.
Look--I'm not defending extremist Islam--I hate any kind of extremism. This includes Extremist Westernism. How are we any more right to tell them how to be?
I mean, think about how COMPLETELY HYPOCRITICAL THIS IS:
1) DON'T TELL US WHAT TO DO!
2) WE'RE GOING TO TELL YOU WHAT TO DO!!!
Don't do what they say, they have to do what we say!
As Jon Stewart would say: Waaaaaaa?
Besides all of that, this is all a big fat distraction from:
1) The fact that humans generally get along with each other just fine, making much of the military/industrial complex useless.
2) The west has a HUGE stack of MAJOR problems of its own to deal with (poverty, pollution, disease).
3) The past five years of major fuck-ups where just about EVERYTHING a Western Government has told us has been wrong.
It's George-Orwell-Overdrive.
More from that article:
Blair said nations must recognize extremism is deep rooted --
Yeah--in the West, too.
with 40 to 50 countries subject to regular terrorist attacks loosely linked to its ideology -- and that an interventionist stance was the precondition for future prosperity and stability.
Hey, GOOD POINT! Want to know what that ideology is? A unified hatred of the WEST!
GO FIGURE!
WHY WOULD THEY HATE US?
Perhaps it's because they're the literal squeaky door hinge that's about to get blown out of the door completely with a thousand M-80s instead of just getting some oil (no pun intended)? Perhaps it's because we're just a bunch of fucking hypocrites who think India, Pakistani nukes are fine but Iranian nukes have got to go?
Personally, I think, since we are in charge of the world, it's our job to make sure everyone is happy. No, I'm not saying free oral sex for Osama--I'm saying it's EASILY within our power to at least address the concerns of countries and political organizations who have issues with us. We can handle it.
We're America.
No, I'm not saying we should do whatever they want, but I think we're strong enough to be adults about this, compromise with the people who hate us and be mature enough to know that we can't always get our way.
BUT WE'RE AMERICA!!!
That's exactly right.
We're America.
Take a real look at American history and you'll see that for hundreds of years we've danced around this planet like we own the damn thing. It's time we live up to the moral principles America was mythically founded up.
Whent he Declaration of Independence says we believe that all men are created equal and that all men have certain inalienable rights, it means ALL people EVERYWHERE on Earth. That means EVERYONE should have a voice and a right to fair trial and the right to avoid TORTURE.
The sad thing is, I can't even leave America to go live in the alternative. There IS no alternative because America is still the most free country in the world but when it's spewing this kind of bullshit and now has it's #1 ally doing it, too. Where am I supposed to go?
Somebody build me a spaceship and book me a ticket on it. I'm ready to leave this crappy planet, thank you very much.
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