Is Tony Blair Running Away?

British Prime Minister Tony Blair claims that slow progress in resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was creating greater, and continued, violence in Iraq. Is he correct, or is he running from an unpopular political issue by attempting to sound more moderate?

Either way he is basically wrong. Iran, eagerly trying to force an Arab ideology on its people, will continue to saber rattle in Israel's direction. Iraq, while certainly not pro-Israel in any way, has never had an interest in doing so.

Current surges in violent activity around Baghdad are the result of Iranian intervention and bear-baiting, Muslim sect strife that will always be there, and growing pains.

Iran and Iraq have always shared a difficult relationship as Persian cultures with different goals. While Iran's people live in fear and cling to their Persian identities, its government strains to become an Arab nation, something anathema to true Persians. Ahmadinejad, a ratty little terrorist who rigged his own kingletship, will continue to poke a stick into the hornet's nest of Baghdad because it serves his interest.

Americans and other westerners should not expect a quick end to violence between Sunni, Shi'ite, and other tribal enemies. Those conflicts will become quiet periodically, but will never be settled.

Blair, indeed all of British Imperialist history, has never truly understood diplomacy. The UK has practiced carrot-and-stick tactics wherever it went, exploiting and undermining economies the world over. When things become economically difficult, or when tension builds in these areas Great Britain leaves town or passes the buck to Americans after creating a mess. France, too, has long pulled these tactics.

Let us remember at whose hands the colonization and subjection of Persia began.

posted at 9:46 AM by Ahmed El Anjanar:: 0 comments: permalink

Ahmed, outside a mosque
being repaired after
2001 Jalalabad earthquakes.

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