In response to war criminal Tony Blair's paid lecture, West must take Sides against Growing Threat

[malaise]

of radical Islam, malaise has the following to say
The world must take sides against war criminals

The speech
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/apr/23/tony-blair-west-take-sides-growing-threat-radical-islam

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/2014/apr/23/tony-blairs-speech-calling-for-west-to-fight-islamist-extremism-reaction-politics-live-blog

George Galloway @georgegalloway
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Under pressure @TheBlairDoc the war criminal Tony Blair has finally lost it. And in the heart of "the City" for which he sacrificed us all.

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New Crusade king and well known war criminal Blair could do the world a favor and take one for the troops and jump from wherever. This useless scumbag must pay for his crimes.

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. So, Blair's position is: overthrowing an authoritarian in Iraq which produced an upsurge

in Islamic terrorism was good, but the authoritarian in Egypt should be supported, because he has non-terroristic Islamists against him?

Got it.

[malaise]

5. Ding ding we have a winner

Seriously I wish these war criminals were treated like pariahs. They are puss filled sores spreading their crusadelike hate in the name of looting resources across the globe.

Blair should STFU!

[bemildred]

2. Full text: Tony Blair’s speech on why the Middle East matters

http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2014/04/full-text-tony-blairs-speech-on-why-the-middle-east-matters/

[malaise]

6. Thanks bemildred

[bemildred]

3. Tony Blair says West should work with Russia, China to fight 'radicalized Islam'

LONDON — The West should set aside its differences with Russia and China to focus on the growing threat from radical Islam, Tony Blair said Wednesday, in a speech that included a call to support Egypt's military government against its Muslim Brotherhood opponents.

The former British prime minister said that tackling "a radicalized and politicized view of Islam" should be at the top of the global political agenda.

He said many in the West seemed "curiously resistant" to face up to a force that "is undermining the possibility of peaceful co-existence in an era of globalization."

Blair, Britain's prime minister between 1997 and 2007, is now Middle East envoy for the Quartet of the United Nations, the European Union, the U.S. and Russia.

http://www.startribune.com/world/256319811.html

[Jefferson23]

4. He is an asshole and a dangerous one at that...he should be shunned. n/t

[dipsydoodle]

7. Blair's speech on Islamic extremism generates strong reactions

Tony Blair's speech seeking to rally global support for a confrontation with Islamic extremism generated a storm of reaction, most of it negative and much of it focusing on the messenger rather than the message.

The director of the Council for Arab-British Understanding, Chris Doyle, said the former prime minister had been right to underline the importance of the subject in his Bloomberg speech but was sharply critical of the way he went about tackling it.

Doyle said: "Blair is largely right to highlight the issue. Islamic extremism is not on the wane. It is flourishing in many areas of the world. Nobody should be complacent.

"It is his solutions that are very problematic – particularly the idea that people in the Middle East have to choose between dictatorship and Islamic extremism, and in criticising the Muslim Brotherhood he has endorsed the military leadership in Egypt. But the choice the people of the region need is not between dictatorship and extremism but between those systems and pluralist democratic rule. In fact, dictatorships have often been a significant cause of frustration and anger, and a driving force behind the rise of al-Qaida."

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/apr/23/blair-speech-islamic-extremism-strong-reactions

[malaise]

8. Blair should be in a cell in the Hagueadd cekk

All the war criminals should be treated as outcasts until they stand trial for war crimes.

[dipsydoodle]

9. I'd rather he was in the ground.

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[malaise]

12. Sadly those types outlive the rest of us

Greedy, arrogant, murderous narcissistic men and women with not one shred of a conscious.

[Jefferson23]

10. Good Op on the idiot, Blair: Tony Blair, the Violent Islamist's Best Friend

I wanted to begin this piece with the sentence "Tony Blair is back". But, of course, our former prime minister has never really been away. Not for him a quiet life of self-portraits and coin tosses. Blair, unlike his ol' partner-in-crime George W. Bush, has spent his 'retirement' agitating for military action against Syria, calling for regime change in Iran, dodging citizen's arrests over his illegal invasion of Iraq and making the case for Tory-style austerity at home. Oh, and don't get me started on all those awkward rumours about the former PM and the former Mrs Murdoch.

This morning, the ex-Labour-leader-turned-Middle-East-peace envoy turned up at Bloomberg's HQ in London to deliver a keynote speech on the threat from Islamist extremism. It was a classic from the Blair-as-liberal-hawk meets Blair-as-expert-on-Islam genre; a collection of half-truths, belligerent threats, sweeping statements and ill-informed generalisations.

"On foreign affairs, Tony is basically a neocon," a former cabinet ally of Blair once told me. "Tony believes he has a unique ability to join up the dots and see the big picture. The question is: do the dots exist and is he right to join them up in the way he does?"

Take Syria. Blair has long been a supporter of Western military intervention against the brutal regime of Bashar al Assad and in support of the Syrian opposition, despite the fact that in the conflict between Assad and the opposition, the violent Islamists - in the form of the hand-chopping, suicide-bombing ISIS and the al Qaeda-aligned Nusra Front, among numerous others - are on the side of... wait for it... the opposition. Blair glosses over this rather crucial point in his Bloomberg speech, making only a brief reference to "extremist groups" and saying, almost in passing, that they "should receive no support from any of the surrounding nations". (They do - including from our close ally, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.)

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/mehdi-hasan/tony-blair-islamist-speech_b_5196663.html?utm_hp_ref=uk

[malaise]

11. Is there anything this mercenary won't do for money?

I detest him -he's as artificial as cheap Chinese plastic and then some.

[Jefferson23]

13. No, I don't think there is. Pathetic bastard. n/t