Playing Politics, and What Comes Of It
Read Tony Blair’s speech yesterday to Congress. Read it all.
Tony Blair gets it, unlike some members of his own party. Like Lileks, I don’t agree with much of his (British) domestic political agenda, but I am extremely thankful that in these days, our most important ally has a leader like him who recognizes the shape of things on an international level. (By the way, last night on the BBC World Service, all they did was carp about how “American” Blair’s speech sounded — as if that were some dread disease from which the prime minister would never recover, and with which he might infect the British body politic.)
And I have very little time for those who would play politics with the removal of a brutal dictator and the struggle for the very future of world civilization.
This struggle will change (and already has changed) our society and who we are. Our choice is no longer whether to change or not to change, but whether we wish to control the direction of that change. I trust the United States of America.
And I’m glad Tony Blair does too.
18 July 2003 / 0 Comments / Tags: politics