Britain - Great no more?
It may be time to remove the "Great" from in front of the "Britain."
Britons want Tony Blair to step down within the next year, members of his own cabinet are resigning, and the British public want to distance themselves from America.
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But it is the latest poll that delivers the most damning indictment of Blair's foreign policy. It found that nearly three quarters (73 percent) of the public believe that "the British government's foreign policy, especially its support for the invasion of Iraq and refusal to demand an immediate ceasefire by Israel in the recent war against Hezbollah in Lebanon, has significantly increased the risk of terrorist attacks on Britain."
Moreover, three fifths (62 percent) agree that "in order to reduce the risk of future terrorist attacks on Britain the government should change its foreign policy, in particular by distancing itself from America, being more critical of Israel and declaring a timetable for withdrawing from Iraq."
Britain, once the empire upon which "The sun never sets", later became the last bastion of the free world, when in the late 1930's it was basically Great Britain and their lion of a leader, Winston Churchill, who stood between Hitler/Tojo/Mussolini and world domination. Now they are turning into France-with-daily-baths.
Churchill may have been the finest leader of the 20th century and Margaret Thatcher more or less the equivalent of England's Ronald Reagan. But once Tony Blair steps down, it appears that the political climate in England has gone from confrontation to appeasement.
I fear that if the English go soft and America goes Democrat, we will soon see a replay of the conditions in the 1930's, when despotic countries began to dominate and overtake the weak while the remaining free nations for the most part avoided any conflicts. Then it was Great Britain that held down the fort until the United States belatedly entered the fray of WWII and helped tip the balance in favor of the good guys.
Tony, the free world will miss you. Great Britain, I am afraid we are about to lose you to the cringing appeasers, hoping against hope that if you mollify the terrorists they will go away. They won't.
Britons want Tony Blair to step down within the next year, members of his own cabinet are resigning, and the British public want to distance themselves from America.
Check out this excerpt:
But it is the latest poll that delivers the most damning indictment of Blair's foreign policy. It found that nearly three quarters (73 percent) of the public believe that "the British government's foreign policy, especially its support for the invasion of Iraq and refusal to demand an immediate ceasefire by Israel in the recent war against Hezbollah in Lebanon, has significantly increased the risk of terrorist attacks on Britain."
Moreover, three fifths (62 percent) agree that "in order to reduce the risk of future terrorist attacks on Britain the government should change its foreign policy, in particular by distancing itself from America, being more critical of Israel and declaring a timetable for withdrawing from Iraq."
Britain, once the empire upon which "The sun never sets", later became the last bastion of the free world, when in the late 1930's it was basically Great Britain and their lion of a leader, Winston Churchill, who stood between Hitler/Tojo/Mussolini and world domination. Now they are turning into France-with-daily-baths.
Churchill may have been the finest leader of the 20th century and Margaret Thatcher more or less the equivalent of England's Ronald Reagan. But once Tony Blair steps down, it appears that the political climate in England has gone from confrontation to appeasement.
I fear that if the English go soft and America goes Democrat, we will soon see a replay of the conditions in the 1930's, when despotic countries began to dominate and overtake the weak while the remaining free nations for the most part avoided any conflicts. Then it was Great Britain that held down the fort until the United States belatedly entered the fray of WWII and helped tip the balance in favor of the good guys.
Tony, the free world will miss you. Great Britain, I am afraid we are about to lose you to the cringing appeasers, hoping against hope that if you mollify the terrorists they will go away. They won't.