Tony Blair's "dangerous liaisons" and dodgy friends.

 

My mother thought Tony Blair was the "Devil Incarnate." The writer, Tom Bower' in his autobiography on Tony Blair, called "Broken Vows", called Blair a "derided carpetbagger”. I think both of them are right.

The philosopher John Gray, thinks that Blair is too 'morally stunted' to be capable of falsehood and deceit, for which Blair is often accused. I take this to mean that Blair never really developed a moral conscience. That could be applied to many people in politics and business. But Blair must have known that he was taking Britain into a war with Iraq on false pretences and that Saddam Hussein didn't have WMDs - that was the whole point of the "dodgy dossier", to make things look sexier. The U.N. weapons inspectors were telling Blair that all the time and no WMD's were ever found.

John Gray, says that Blair thinks and acts on the premise that what he believes to be good must be true. When the Egyptian military officer Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, overthrew the democratically elected Mohammed Morsi in 2013, and installed himself as the President of Egypt, Blair backed the coup and the bloody crackdown on Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood supporters. He called on the international community to do the same, and he became an adviser to al-Sisi and made a lot of money out of him.

Blair was told that invading Iraq was fraught with potential problems, because it was a country divided by deep communal enmities and that destroying the Ba'athist regime, could create a vacuum and lead to a civil war. The Yanks sacked all the Ba'ath Party members who had been running the country and many of these joined the opposition fighting the Yanks after they lost their jobs.  The Americans didn't seem to realise that most people in Iraq, were Ba'ath Party members, because it was dangerous not to be a party member.

When the Americans invaded Afghanistan, once again, with the support of the British government and Tony Blair, they dropped peanut butter and Hershey bars as food aid for the Afghans. Blair thought he could turn Afghanistan into a pastoral Ambridge.

ISIS, was just one of many groups that benefitted from the Invasion of Iraq. The Americans might have got the oil, but it's the Shia Iranian's that have triumphed politically. Blair is often accused of having dodgy friends and of 'dangerous liaisons'. He's friendly with a number of wealthy dictators. One of these dodgy friends is the Ukrainian billionaire, Victor Pinchuk, who finances the Tony Blair Faith Foundation. The Ukrainians have accused Pinchuk of bribery and corruption.

Blair is a total egomaniac who sees himself as some kind of Messiah trying to rid the world of evil while at the same time, he fills his pockets with filthy lucre. The wanker has named both a faith foundation and a global institute after himself.  With Blair's reputation, I hardly think he's qualified to put the world to rights. Some are now speculating, that he will return to British politics if Sir Steer Calmer, becomes the next Labour PM.