Daily Mail: Reports the following on Tony Blair, " Crossing the globe on private jets, Tony Blair mixed big business, charity, faith, and politics in a way that many regarded as morally odious. "
Lets Get Real:
Thus the one word that always comes up with Tony Blair is IRAQ, the destruction of the Saddam Hussein was a good development, the post war planning for Iraq was a disaster and Blair should have used his influence with Bush 43 to correct some of the mistakes of the US in Iraq, like dissolving the Army, that caused years of blowback through the killing of US and UK and troops with the help of Iran. On the other hand US/UK action in Kosovo prevented mass murder, this also showed the good that Blair could do, getting the US in to action to prevent the march of the Serbs. Also there is the peace deal in Northern Ireland, Mr Blair spent, hours, days, weeks, months, even years on this deal. Also a good development. Thus this blog's view of Blair is mixed, a great politician, he did win three elections for Labour, he did take action as mentioned above, but then we come to Iraq, the Western failure to build a strong and united Iraq, and thus the growth of IS, but it should be noted that the growth of Islamic State is down to the Obama Oval, it removed troops in 2011, thus Bush43/Blair set the field for IS but its growth is down to the weakness of President Obama. This blog hopes history will be kinder to Blair than his present critics allow, at least Blair tried.
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